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Book SynopsisExplores the contentious debates among Black Catholics about the proper relationship between religious practice and racial identity Chicago has been known as the Black Metropolis. But before the Great Migration, Chicago could have been called the Catholic Metropolis, with its skyline defined by parish spires as well as by industrial smoke stacks and skyscrapers. This book uncovers the intersection of the two. Authentically Black and Truly Catholic traces the developments within the church in Chicago to show how Black Catholic activists in the 1960s and 1970s made Black Catholicism as we know it today. The sweep of the Great Migration brought many Black migrants face-to-face with white missionaries for the first time and transformed the religious landscape of the urban North. The hopes migrants had for their new home met with the desires of missionaries to convert entire neighborhoods. Missionaries and migrants forged fraught relationships with one another and tens of thousands of BlackTrade Review"This book has the potential to promote important conversations about the historic relationships of black and white Catholics, about the status and experiences of black Catholics today, and about what is required to properly recover and interpret the deep and rich history of black Catholics in the United States." * U.S. Catholic Magazine *"Authentically Black and Truly Catholic makes crucial contributions to wider scholarly conversations about 'Black religion' and 'the Black church,' the relationship between race and religion, and the history of Catholicism in the United States, as well as to other historical topics such as the Great Migration, Black Power, the urban North, and twentieth-century US history more generally." * The Journal of Religion *"A fascinating, richly detailed social history of the black transformation of an American Catholicism that traditionally welcomed and nutured Catholic ethnic immigrants in America. In many ways the book is deceptively complex. It is at once a social history of black Catholics that vividly uses the words of those black migrants to describe their experiences in the church and their new surroundings. Yet the book is also an intellectual history of the role that American Catholicism played in the Great Migration, truly making readers rethink the major sociopolitical movements of the last century and the Catholic Church's role in shaping (and being shaped by) them. Cressler's work demonstrates that the presence of religion in African American and American history is crucial to our understanding of what America is." * Journal of American History *"A significant contribution to understanding the context of black Catholics gravitation to Catholicism. It is a must read for scholars interested in black religious identity." * Journal of the Scientific Study of Religion *"Matthew Cressler has penned a book that can be read by a wide audience. He provides integration and balance of both primary and secondary sources and provides an extensive bibliography for the reader. This study of black Catholics, an interdisciplinary endeavor, encompassed a variety of disciplinary fieds: religious studies, African American studies, Catholic studies, history, and postcolonial studies. This book has something to offer those interested in the emergence of black Catholicism and its legacy in the United States, particularly in Chicago; likewise, historians and researchers will value this books’ contributions to the growing body of scholarly research on black Catholics in the United States." -- American Catholic Studies"Usually treatments of Black Catholics in the twentieth century situate them in relation to white people and prioritize the history of interracial activists in the civil rights movements. Historian Matthew J. Cressler’s Authentically Black and Truly Catholic considers Black Catholics on their own terms to explain how Black Catholics, by the 1980s, could practice distinctively Black ways of being Catholic … Cressler’s book is a tour de force." -- Review of Religious Research"The author makes excellent arguments for black Catholic self-awareness, collected both through a canvas of the extant literature—much of which has lain fallow all these years—and in-person interviews … the nation’s three million black Catholics are a potent, if often neglected, source of strength for the Church, and Cressler’s volume does much to chronicle their struggle." -- Catholic Library World"Cressler’s work adds two new dimensions to histories of religion in the civil rights movement. He shows how ritual practice contributed to black migrants’ Catholic transformation and self-understanding, and then he demonstrates how that consciousness fused Black Power with black Catholicism in a rejection of liberal interracialist Catholicism." -- The Christian Century"Matthew J. Cressler’s groundbreaking Authentically Black and Truly Catholic sets out not only to explore the world of black Catholic Chicago, but also to participate in a larger efforts to rethink the stories we tell about American religion … If, for example, you did not already believe that Catholicism, “as with all things in America,” is “ineluctably entangled with race” (200), then you may finish this book mourning a little—but also closer to the truth than you were before." -- Study of American Catholicism at University of Notre Dame"It is Cressler’s attention to the intersection of the Great Migrations and religion that is perhaps one of the work’s biggest contributions to researchers and teachers of the sociology of religion because he aptly demonstrates what the migrations meant to Catholicism, and Catholicism’s impact on those who had migrated. He takes painstaking effort to document how those migrations “changed religious life and culture across the country as Black and southern ways of being Christian were remade amidst the ‘exigencies of the city’”… Cressler reveals that interplay which ultimately led to an expansion of Black Catholic existence and ways of being. In doing so, he also welcomes us to reconsider the Great Migrations and broader understanding of their impact on the social and spiritual aspects of Black life. This work is a significant contribution to the historiographies of U.S. Catholicism, African American life and history, Black Power, and the Great Migrations." -- Sociology Religion"Cressler’s book is an exciting read. Accessible to undergraduates, this book will prove a rewarding addition to a wide range of college courses, and its individual chapters could likewise stand alone for such purposes." -- Religion"What remains clear from his retracing of nearly a century of Black Catholic history through the lens of the Chicago experience is that contemporary concerns of Black Catholics for ecclesial and civil justice and self-determination are a continuation of their long experience within the Catholic Church." -- US Catholic Historian"In Authentically Black and Truly Catholic, Matthew Cressler offers an original and insightful portrait of Chicagos Black Catholics from the communitys early years through the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements and sheds new light on the dynamic relationship between race and religion in twentieth-century America. With Chicago at the center of the broader story of a 'revolution in Black Catholic identity,' this well-researched and engaging study reveals the complexity and texture of Black Catholics religious lives and negotiations of what it meant to be committed to both Black solidarity and community life and to the Roman Catholic Church. Cressler advances the study of Black Catholic history in exciting ways and makes an invaluable contribution." -- Judith Weisenfeld,author of New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration"In Authentically Black and Truly Catholic, Matthew Cressler turns a spotlight on the efforts of Black Catholics to articulate and dramatize their faith in an idiom reflective of the spirituality and aesthetics nourished by their culture and explores the understudied influence of the rhetoric and aesthetics of Black Power on the 20th century reemergence of an active Black Catholic Movement. This work makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of diversity in the Catholic Church in the United States!" -- M. Shawn Copeland,editor of Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience * Orbis Books *"Previous work has largely conflated racial justice and interracial liberalism and this book examines how this view largely obscures the important lived experience and political and religious preferences of Black Catholics in Chicago there is little to fault in the analysis itself and this remarkable first book will be of interest to historians and sociologists of race and religion for many years to come." * Catholic Books Review *"Cressler’s considerable achievement is to place African American Catholics at the center of the story, much more so than histories of race relations typically allow, and in this way he enriches standard accounts of both African American and Catholic history." -- American Historical Review"Well researched and chronicled, Matthew J. Cressler’s contribution is welcomed in the emerging lexicon on Black Catholicism." * Journal of African American History *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Whiter captures the many dimensions of colorism that shape Asian women's lives. Messages from mothers, others, and the surrounding cultures all coincide to constrain women's sense of beauty, family, identity, and worth. But Nikki Khanna and the distinguished contributors to this volume capture the many ways, both subtle and overt, that women negotiate, succumb to, and defy the dominant messages around skin color. This volume is a wonderful combination of sociology, cultural studies, memoir, history, media studies, and poetics bringing a diversity of voices and perspectives to this conversation." -- Margaret Hunter, author of Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone"Colorism affects Asian American women of every background, whether it's due to Asian beauty standards, colonialism, or racism. Khanna taps into the cultural pressures to possess lighter skin color. By curating relatable and thought-provoking stories from a diverse group of Asian American women in their own voices, Whiter will appeal to a wide breadth of readers—from gender and race scholars to anyone interested in deconstructing beauty standards." -- Nancy Wang Yuen, author of Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism"Whiter is an eye-opening book that aims to help us better understand the role of skin color in social mobility." * Bitch Magazine *"This insightful, thought-provoking volume gives voice to the wide range of Asian American women's experiences of colorism." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2020 Alan Bray Memorial Prize, given by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language AssociationA new understanding of freedom in the black diaspora grounded in the erotic In Frottage, Keguro Macharia weaves together histories and theories of blackness and sexuality to generate a fundamentally new understanding of both the black diaspora and queer studies. Macharia maintains that to reach this understanding, we must start from the black diaspora, which requires re-thinking not only the historical and theoretical utility of identity categories such as gay, lesbian, and bisexual, but also more foundational categories such as normative and non-normative, human and non-human. Simultaneously, Frottage questions the heteronormative tropes through which the black diaspora has been imagined. Between Frantz Fanon, René Maran, Jomo Kenyatta, and Claude McKay, Macharia moves through genrespsychoanalysis, fiction, anthropology, poetryas well as rTrade ReviewFrottage takes you on a journey of mutual pleasure, queer potentials, intimacy, violence, and erotic freedom through the African and Afro-diaspora. Macharia delivers a layered, intellectually expansive, and necessary critical irritation for black queer studies. * zethy Matebeni, curator and co-editor of Reclaiming Afrikan *Frottage is an important and field-changing book. One of Keguro Macharia’s great talents is to guide us to a way to understand, read, and think differently about kinship, about gender, about ‘thinghood,’ and about intimacy. Macharia is a profoundly original thinker and writer and in Frottage he renders and imagines diaspora in ways that attend beautifully to a range of world-making practices, to geo-histories and discontinuities. The final chapter, both meditation and invitation, is a gift. * Christina Sharpe, author of In the Wake *Frottage raises fundamental questions about ways of seeing and living sexual difference – in this case queer sexuality – in a world that by virtue of its language, expectations, actions and general beliefs, tends to homogenise sexuality in a heteronormative sense. [...] Keguro is searching for how to articulate ‘queer’ in an African and Afrodiasporic world that disavows not just the practice but the very word and identity. * Wasafiri Magazine *Frottage is an important addition to theoretical work that makes it possible to think about black and queer subjectivities in Africa and the African diaspora. * Tydskrif vir Letterkunde *

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Book SynopsisAfter years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural, political, and economic state of the Philippines and its diaspora. Traversing issues of colonialism, neoliberalism, globalization, and nationalism, this volume examines not only the past and present position of the Philippines and its people, but also advances new frameworks for re-conceptualizing this growing field. Written by a prestigious lineup of international scholars grappling with the legacies of colonialism and imperial power, the essays examine both the genealogy of the Philippines' hyphenated identity as well as the future trajectory of the field. Hailing from multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, the contributors revisit and contest traditional renditions of PhilTrade ReviewThe book will primarily interest scholars and students but may also appeal to general readers with connections to the Philippines. * Choice Connect *Edited byMartin Manalansan IV and Augusto F. Espiritu, pioneers of FilipinoX studies, it is an unapologetic introduction to the interdisciplinary, intersectional, transnational,palimpsestic nature of the work many FilipinoX scholars in the Diaspora have engaged over the last two decades. * Pacific Historical Review *This exciting and crucial anthology marks a major historiographical intervention into the fields of Asian American and Filipino/American studies. Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars,Filipino Studiesrepresents not only a moment of stock-taking, but also a clarion call to future scholars to take up the fields politically committed aspirations. -- Theodore S. Gonzalves,author of The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora

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Book SynopsisDelves into the long history of Asian American sporting cultures, considering how identities and communities are negotiated on sporting fieldsThrough a close examination of Asian American sporting cultures ranging from boxing and basketball to spelling bees and wrestling, the contributors reveal the intimate connection between sport and identity formation. Sport plays a special role in the processes of citizen-making and of the policing of national and diasporic bodies. It is thus one key area in which Asian American stereotypes may be challenged, negotiated, and destroyed as athletic performances create multiple opportunities for claiming American identities.This volume incorporates work on Pacific Islander, South Asian, and Southeast Asian Americans as well as East Asian Americans, and explores how sports are gendered, including examinations of Asian American men's attempts to claim masculinity through sporting cultures as well as the Orientalism evident in discTrade Review"A wonderful read for and about sportss observers, participants, scholars, and fans. With a wide variety of approaches ranging from media analysis to autoethnography, this collection of smart and accessible essays provides a great model for thinking about sportsand through sports about ethnicity, race, and gender in specific local, transnational, and historical contexts." -- Erica Rand,author of Red Nails, Black Skates: Gender, Cash, and Pleasure On and Off the Ice"Sports is one of the most important arenas of socialization and popular culture, and Asian Americans have often been seen as having a disjunctive or non-existent relationship to it. This sui generis collection shows in unexpected and startling ways how a long but under-examined history of Asian American sporting culturefrom participation and competition to spectatorship and fandomfundamentally reshapes allegories of national belonging and race at the heart of athletics." -- David L. Eng,University of Pennsylvania

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication AssociationHow Black women in the spotlight negotiate the post-racial gaze of Hollywood and beyond From Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, and Shonda Rhimes to their audiences and the industry workers behind the scenes, Ralina L. Joseph considers the way that Black women are required to walk a tightrope. Do they call out racism only to face accusations of being called racists? Or respond to racism in code only to face accusations of selling out? Postracial Resistance explores how African American women celebrities, cultural producers, and audiences employ postracial discoursethe notion that race and race-based discrimination are over and no longer affect people's everyday livesto refute postracialism itself. In a world where they're often written off as stereotypical Angry Black Women, Joseph offers that some Black women in media use strategic ambiguity, deploying the failures of post-raciaTrade ReviewThe book is significant in centering the voices and experiences of African American women in media studies and articulating their strategic resistance in mediated spaces where they are minoritized. -- ChoiceThe book is a much-needed contribution to sociological analysis of Black women’s talk, arguing Black women’s vocal performatives enact postracial political resistance... Postracial Resistance clarifies postracial logics—how they manifest ambivalence in public speaking events and even the most mundane speech acts of Black women in positions of institutional diversity and inclusion. Joseph adds Black women’s talk to the topic of postracial discourse emerging in critical communication, cultural studies, ethnic studies, and sociology. -- International Journal of CommunicationA fascinating study that boldly mines the complexities of racial and gender microaggressions in contemporary media, examining the many ways in which Black women culture workers and consumers have navigated said minefields. Through nuanced readings of our notoriously vexed postracial pop cultural landscape, and through rich explorations of Black women and their audiences, Ralina Joseph has written a necessary accompaniment to Claudia Rankines Citizen. -- Daphne Brooks,author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910With the spectacular visibility of Oprah, Michelle Obama, and Beyoncé, such a book is needed now, perhaps, more than ever. To advance conversations about the intersections of race, class, gender, media, and accomplishment, Ralina Joseph introduces us to the concept of & strategic ambiguity, one that complicates the realities of celebrity life for women of color in the wake of the & postracial condition. -- Herman Gray,author of Cultural Moves, African Americans and the Politics of RepresentationJoseph’s insightful unpacking of Black women’s resistance is a critical, cultural communication studies book in both method and content ... The level of detailed analysis Joseph offers is impressive and her arguments insightful ... well-written, timely, and an important addition to the conversation about being Black in America. * QED *

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Book SynopsisThe connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illnessIn 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that - based on their clinical experiment - the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question: Is racism becoming a mental illness? In Are Racists Crazy? Sander Gilman and James Thomas trace the idea of race and racism as psychopathological categories., from mid-19th century Europe, to contemporary America, up to the aforementioned clinical experiment at the University of Oxford, and ask a slightly different question than that posed by Time: How did racism become a mental illness? Using historical, archival, and content analysis, the authors provide a rich account of how the 19th century Sciences of Man' - including anthropology, medicine, and biology - used race as a means of defining psychTrade ReviewGilman and Thomas make their case methodically, with rigorous, far-reaching scholarship. They provide no easy answers but plenty of food for thought amid Americas current crisis in race relations. * Publishers Weekly *Are Racists Crazy?Is a highly informative book that significantly contributes to a historical understanding of the connection between race and madness. * Patterns of Prejudice *A tour d'horizon of the historical relationship among race, racism, and mental illness...A sharp contribution to a significant topic that continues to generate heated discussion and debate. * Kirkus *Truly multidisciplinary, thisbook will be of interest to scholars and educators from a variety of social science disciplines. * Choice *Gilman and Thomas make a major contribution to racial theory. They study the deep structures of racism, not only in plunder, privilege, and antipathy for the 'other,' but also in the scientific frameworks that seek to explain 'otherness,' sometimes affirming it, sometimes denying it. Locating racism within biopolitics, Are Racists Crazy? sheds new light on such varied matters as implicit bias and authoritarian populism. Most important, this book unveils the inescapable political connections between race and science. -- Howard Winant,author of The New Politics Of Race: Globalism, Difference, JusticeSander Gilman and James Thomas have undertaken a weighty task; they have provided a framework that helps us to decipher the science behind race and racism. As provocative as the books title is, you will find ample evidence and persuasive arguments for why a reliance on medicalizing racism is not enough in our quest to not only understand it but also to eradicate racism. -- Deirdre Cooper Owens,author of Medical Superbodies: Slavery, Immigration, and the Birth of American GynecologySander Gilman and James Thomas have provided a unique intellectual and political history of racial theorizing and have generated a virtual & cognitive road map of how anti-Semitism as leitmotif has played such a powerful, even dominant role in the way scholars and researchers have approached the subject matter, whether in Europe, the United States, or South Africa. Few works even attempt to piece together so much material, while pulling a convincing thread through a sustained argument. -- Troy Duster,author of Backdoor to EugenicsAre Racists Crazy?makes a strong, richly documented historical case for medicalization. * Anti-Semitism Studies *

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2019 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre ResearchHonorable Mention, 2021 Errol Hill Award, given by the American Society for Theatre ResearchArgues for a conception of black cultural life that exceeds post-blackness and conditions of loss In Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life, cultural critic and historian Tavia Nyong'o surveys the conditions of contemporary black artistic production in the era of post-blackness. Moving fluidly between the insurgent art of the 1960's and the intersectional activism of the present day, Afro-Fabulations challenges genealogies of blackness that ignore its creative capacity to exceed conditions of traumatic loss, social death, and archival erasure.If black survival in an anti-black world often feels like a race against time, Afro-Fabulations looks to the modes of memory and imaTrade ReviewBy foregrounding crucial modes of disappearance, withdrawal, obfuscation, and eclipse found across diverse examples of contemporary art, literature, and performance ... Nyong’o further renegotiates the terms of ongoing debates in literary studies, queer theory, and black thought most broadly. * LA Review of Books *To afro-fabulate is to listen to and know the ongoing history of anti-black racism, but also to rebuke it by telling another story. In showing us how artists and performers engage in this act of telling, Nyongo offers not only a compelling new way to think about works that challenge history, narrative, and truth, but also a method in which we might continue that work. * Brooklyn Rail *The imaginative power of Nyong’o’s words, his push to reimagine chronology and time through the optics of Blackness and his insistence on the intellectual stakes of Afrofabulatory ambivalence stuck with me, reminding me of the importance of the ephemeral, the everyday, and the speculative. * Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal *Tavia Nyong’o provides detailed descriptions of various performances, along with intuitive and counterintuitive insights about their creators. The book uses “interdisciplinary modes of investigation” to “aid this process of critical fabulation in a variety of ways...especially insofar as they bring into co-presence a sense of the incompossible, mingling what was with that might have been” (7). * QED *

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Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, 2020 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre ResearchArgues that Ricanness operates as a continual performance of bodily endurance against US colonialismIn 1954, Dolores Lolita Lebrón and other members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party led a revolutionary action on the chambers of Congress, firing several shots at the ceiling and calling for the independence of the island. Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance begins with Lebrón's vanguard act, distilling the relationship between Puerto Rican subjectivity, gender, sexuality, and revolutionary performance under colonial time. Ruiz argues that Ricannessa continual performance of bodily endurance against US colonialism through different measures of timeuncovers what's at stake politically for the often unwanted, anticolonial, racialized and sexualized enduring body. Moving among theatre, experimental video, revolutionary protest, phTrade Review"Ruiz’s relentless pressure on how fields of knowledge depend upon spatial containment eviscerates the collusion between epistemology and place. Her dazzling intellectualism models the necessarily daring edges one must seek out in discussions about aesthetics and politics. This beautifully written book encourages the demands of nonlinear thinking, the challenging pleasures of scholarship, and offers a more expansive sense of what activism can be. Ricanness is erudition for the people." -- Alexandra T. Vazquez, author of Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music"Ricanness accomplishes a sustained dislocation of the hierarchies of the senses. It is an ontology of life and death, mixed with lipstick, champagne, sweat, vulgarity, and survival. It is a poetics of time and temporality. This poetics is worked out phenomenologically, aesthetically, and politically through the uncompromising stance Ruiz takes toward the violent history echoing across the unbroken Rican spirit." -- Tavia Nyong'o, author of Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life"[Ruiz] uses the example of Puerto Rico to push theory forward—challenging it, extending it, upending it." * Choice *"At once challenging and generous, forcefully-argued and nuanced, Ruiz’s work demonstrates how endurance, suspension, and waiting characterize Rican subjectivities, and how aesthetic performance both reveals and confronts the colonial (and postcolonial) logics that inform these subjectivities." * Social Text *"In shifting away from more traditional disciplinary approaches that have pervaded the field from its beginnings, Ricanness [...] turned to the promise of the aesthetic in order to understand and move beyond the confines of political discourse that limits resistance to the realm of grand political acts." * Latino Studies *"Sandra Ruiz pushes us to consider how Puerto Ricans are not only forced to constantly endure subjection and violence, but also how they cultivate an existence that punctures, even if only momentarily, the stranglehold of colonialism on their lives and deaths. In Ricanness, death becomes an insurgent force under the restrictive time and limited horizon imposed by colonial rule." * Centro Journal *"Ruiz’s book is groundbreaking as she skillfully weaves together philosophy (specifically phenomenology and existentialism), performance studies, psychoanalysis, gender and queer studies, and Puerto Rican studies, to address major blind spots in each of these fields." * Women & Performance *"Ruiz’s expertly wound theoretical frame unfurls itself in her sumptuous close readings. Moving roughly chronologically while capturing alternate time looping under coloniality, she analyzes performance across media, including photography, political protest, durational performance art, plays, poetry, and experimental video." * Theatre Journal *"A profoundly necessary and timely book ... Though her book focuses on Ricans in the diaspora, her theorization of alternative ways of being through anticolonial performance is not bound by colonially imposed borders between here (US) and there (Puerto Rico) ... Ricanness offers so much not only to the fields of performance studies and Puerto Rican studies, but also to Ricans like me, Ricans wanting “a relational way to imagine, dream, and construct alternate forms of living under colonialism, across bodies of water." * The Drama Review *"Ruiz complicates the conventional gendered connotations of masculinized impotence and/or endurance by reading these states through the framework of colonial/national personhood. Throughout the book, Ruiz underscores how many performances of Ricanness entail a reckoning with gendered violence and a confrontation with the unfulfilled and violent promises of redemptive masculinities ... In inviting us to appreciate the aesthetic as a politic, and to understand Rican survival as an artful and embodied working upon an unending loop in colonial time, Ruiz invigorates Latinx studies engagements with performance and provides us with theories we can use to situate further performances of Ricanness." * American Quarterly *

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Book Synopsis2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Winner of the Anna Julia Cooper/CLR James Award for Outstanding Book in Africana Studies presented by the National Council for Black Studies Demonstrates how Harlemite's dynamic fight for their rights and neighborhood raised the black community's racial consciousness and established Harlem's legendary political culture In Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?, Shannon King vividly uncovers early twentieth century Harlem as an intersection between the black intellectuals and artists who created the New Negro Renaissance and the working class who found fought daily to combat institutionalized racism and gender discrimination in both Harlem and across the city. New Negro activists, such as Hubert Harrison and Frank Crosswaith, challenged local forms of economic and racial inequality in attempts to breakdown the structural manifestations that upheld them. Insurgent stay-at-home black mothers took negligent landlords to court, complaining to magistrates aboutTrade ReviewMoving past grim depictions of Harlem as a ghetto or romantic views of Harlem as the Black Mecca, Shannon King captures the neighborhood's history from below. Harlem, he shows us, was a community born from struggles for justice. King has written a rich and telling account of how Harlem's activists fought for good jobs, challenged exploitative landlords, and resisted police and reformers who targeted 'vice.' Attentive to institutions and politics, to movement building and structural racism, to interracial conflict and intraracial divisions, this is a dynamic history of a community in formation. -- Thomas J. Sugrue,author of Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the NorthThis is a fabulous study of Harlem, peeling back the layers of a place we thought we knew so well; no longer assuming but demonstrating precisely how the 'Negro Mecca' took shape within the crucible of angst and ambition. . . . A wonderful piece of urban and political history. -- Davarian L. Baldwin,Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Trinity CollegeWhose Harlem is this, Anyway? Community and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Erais a synthetic masterpiece, drawing on a wide array of primary and secondary literature to produce a grassroots picture of black Harlems genesis from 1900 to 1930. * American Historical Review *Historians will find it a perspective orchestration of individuals and movements, and students will find inspiration to grapple with the persistence of structural racism and to assert and expand individual and community rights. * Journal of American History *Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era is a synthetic masterpiece, drawing on a wide array of primary and secondary literature to produce a grassroots picture of black Harlems genesis from 1900 to 1930. -- David Huyssen * American Historical Review *A fine-grained account of community politics, Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? is a welcome alternative to accounts of the New Negro era that focus only on the arts and prominent leaders. . . . Through meticulous research and vivid storytelling, King argues that the activism associated with later eras had roots in battles for Harlem tenants rights, workers rights, and consumers rights, and for freedom from overzealous reformers and policing based on white stereotypes rather than concern for the communitys safety. -- James Davis * The Journal of American History *Highly attuned to the intraracial politics of class and gender that contested the meanings of community rights, Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? . . . This excellent, highly original work adds a new dimension to the study of black neighbourhood politics in the early decades of the twentieth century through its exploration of community rights thought and activism. -- Daniel Matlin * Journal of American Studies *Through this book, labor educators can explore the historical roots of present-day issues such as the racial wealth gap and the Black Lives Matter movement, and can examine how grassroots activism around community issues confronted racism. -- Will Cooley * Labor Studies Journal *Historian King demonstrates in his excellent study that during the New Negro era, especially between WWI and the beginning of the Great Depression, blacks in Harlem vigorously fought for their community rights against tremendous odds of white discrimination.A must read for those interested in urban civil rights and race in the 20th-century US. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era is a synthetic masterpiece, drawing on a wide array of primary and secondary literature to produce a grassroots picture of black Harlems genesis from 1900 to 1930. * American Historical Review *This book deserves much praise for these scholarly contributions, as well as the questions it raises regarding Harlems positionality to other urban black communities. * H-Net *Historians will find it a perceptive orchestration of individuals and movements, and students will find inspiration to grapple with the persistence of structural racism and to assert and expand individual and community rights. * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 The Making of the Negro Mecca: Harlem and the Struggle for Community Rights 13 2 "Not to Save the Union but to 'Free the Slaves'": Black Labor Activism and Community Politics during the New Negro Era 53 3 "Colored People Have Few Places to Which They Can Move": Tenants, Landlords, and Community Mobilization 93 4 "Maintaining 'a High Class of Respectability' in Negro Neighborhoods": Contestation and Congregation in Harlem's Geography of Vice and Leisure during the Prohibition Era 121 5 "Demand the Dismissal of Policemen Who Abuse the Privileges of Their Uniform": Racial Violence, Police Brutality, and Self-Protection 153 Conclusion 187 Notes 191 Select Bibliography 231 Index 247 About the Author 255

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Book SynopsisA foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and mediaFrom graphic footage of migrant children in cages to #BlackLivesMatter and #OscarsSoWhite, portrayals and discussions of race dominate the media landscape. Race and Media adopts a wide range of methods to make sense of specific occurrences, from the corporate portrayal of mixed-race identity by 23andMe to the cosmopolitan fetishization of Marie Kondo. As a whole, this collection demonstrates that all forms of mediafrom the sitcoms we stream to the Twitter feeds we followconfirm racism and reinforce its ideological frameworks, while simultaneously giving space for new modes of resistance and understanding. In each chapter, a leading media scholar elucidates a set of foundational concepts in the study of race and mediasuch as the burden of representation, discourses of racialization, multiculturalism, hybridity, and the visuality of race. In doing so, they offer tools for media liTrade ReviewUrgently needed, there is no other book that addresses studying race and media like this one. The editor and contributors provide inclusive up-to-date analyses containing great diversity of thought, research, and methodology over a range of case studies on the topic of race and media. This book is destined to become the ‘go-to’ textbook for Race and Media courses * Angharad N. Valdivia, author of The Gender of Latinidad: Uses and Abuses of Hybridity *This is the collection I’ve been waiting for. It refutes the stereotype that race-conscious media studies is ‘just’ about representation. The articles here by new and established scholars show us how centering race in studies of production, platforms, audiences, and representation can push the entire field of media studies forward in fundamental ways. * LeiLani Nishime, co-editor of Racial Ecologies *An unparalleled, inclusive, and intersectional collection of original research ... recommend it most highly. * Global Media Journal *

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Book SynopsisFrom 1925 to 1941, African American clergymen teamed up with leading record labels such as Columbia, Paramount, Victor-RCA to record and sell their sermons on wax. These phonograph preachers significantly shaped the development of black religion during the interwar period. This book offers a religious history of the phonograph industry.Trade ReviewAfter reading this book, I now understand again, but really for the first time, what it was that entranced me when first listening more than twenty years ago to the Rev. Gates, a moment that altered the course of my scholarly career since. Thank you, Professor Martin, for that. * Church History *Although histories of American religion have focused on the relationship of radio to the growth of preaching in America, especially among white clergy, there has been no study of the impact of the phonograph on the development of black preaching in the mid-20th century. Martin draws deeply on record company archives to explore how the phonograph sermons of black Protestant preachers between 1925 and 1941 significantly shaped African-American religion and culture.... Martin's vital study contributes significantly not only to the history of religion, but also to the lively, ongoing discussion of 'race records' by African-American musicians in early 20th-century America. * Publishers Weekly *Religion Publishing Update Fall 2014: In Profile: "In the early half of the 20th century, many black preachers discovered a new toolthe phonograph. Sermons recorded on vinyl (or, at first, wax) enabled them to reach beyond their local churches and market their sermons to other eager listeners. The records often outstripped the sales of those by popular blues singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey, and while many preachers went to places like Chicago to get record deals, record company executives began traveling from church to church in the rural South in search of the next celebrity preacher. In Preaching on Wax, Lerone A. Martin illuminates this little-known chapter in American cultural history. * Publishers Weekly *Martin has crafted a tight, well-conceived narrative that demonstrates persuasively how religious, commercial, and technological forces came together in the making of modern African American Christianity. Most important, perhaps, its crisp, accessible prose makes it a pleasure to read. * Journal of American History *Eloquently recalls the at once triumphant and controversial history of Americas first recordings of black sermonic voicesan innovation that has transformed American religion, music, and the arts more broadly. Important and timely, Preaching on Wax insists that we reframe our understanding of the spiritual impulses, racial politics, and commercial influences that mediate a rich strand of African American religion. Indeed, this is a must read! -- Marla Frederick,Harvard UniversityOne of the most richly textured accounts of the emergence of black consumer culture to appear in many years. Martin has made a significant contribution to our understanding of how the rise of 'new sacred commodities' during the first years of the 20th century profoundly shaped modern African American religion. Assiduously researched and full of startling insight, Preaching on Wax challenges us to rethink the sources of African American religious authority during the Great Migration. -- Wallace D. Best,Princeton UniversityMartinsPreaching on Waxis a beautifully written, well-researched book...Martins book also compels the student and scholar of African-American Christianity to re-think the relationship between black religion, popular culture, and commercial success. * The Marginalia Review of Books *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix Note on the Text xi 1 Introduction 1 2 Regulation, Not Rebellion: From "Rough Music" to Democratic Disorder 21 3 "Secret Plodders": Anti-Federalism, Anonymity, and the Struggle for Democratic Dissent 55 4 Institutionalizing Counterpublicity: The Democratic Societies of the 1790s 83 5 James Madison: Public Opinion and Dissentient Democracy 115 6 "Salutary Collisions" and Multiple Discourses: A Farmer, a Lawyer, and Two Unknown Democrats 147 7 The "Saucy Sons of Enquiry": Thomas Cooper and Democratic Dissent 177 8 Conclusion 197 Notes 207 Bibliography 243 Index 257 About the Author 262

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLatinas in the Criminal Justice System shines an important light on a topic long neglected by criminologists and criminology. Lopez and Pasko elevate the often ignored voices and situations of Latina girls and women, who are often invisible in the many debates about immigration. A must read. -- Meda Chesney-Lind, co-author of Beyond Bad Girls: Gender, Violence and HypeContributing authors masterfully examine and vividly delineate the historical, social, legal, and ideological forces governing the Latina experience with the penal system and mainstream American society. In a highly charged political era, this book is a timely contribution to help educate readers about police, law and society, race/ethnic relations, and social and legal reform. -- M.G Urbina * Choice *

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Book SynopsisMoves beyond one-dimensional portrayals of Asian international adoption as either a progressive form of U.S. multiculturalism or as an exploitative form of cultural and economic imperialism.Trade ReviewWhile Hollywood has made it famous, people have been adopting children from other countries since the end of World War II . . . In this book Catherine Choy brings to life the history of this unique way to create a family . . . This book will help students get a sense of where we have come from. -- Kevin Winter * San Francisco Book Review *Global Families is a rare find: a scholarly work that reads like a novel. The framing story, the little-known but influential work of International Social Service, is fascinating in its own right. What felt even more important was how, without compromising on research or analysis, Global Families makes this history matter on a deeply human level. It includes personal stories of the people who were involved in shaping Asian international adoption in the U.S., as well as those affected by it. It raises hard questions about the current practice and culture of international adoption. And it confronts us with the emerging voices of people adopted through this system, who are now old enough to speak for themselves. Im hoping Catherine Ceniza Choy will continue to look at adoption through this lens, so we can all see more clearly. -- Laura Callen, Founder/Director of Adoption Museum ProjectGlobal Familiesis transformative in the strongest sense: it challenges the histories that we conventionally tell about Asian international adoption. Whether by uncovering the crucial role of mixed-race babies in the origins of Asian international adoption or recovering the story of baseball pitcher-adoptive father Jim Bouton, Catherine CenizaChoycrafts a unique history focusing on organizational practices and non-state actors. Using International Social Services records as a point of departure, this book provides crucial historical frameworks for any reader interested in adoption, race, migration, and 20thcentury international relations. -- Mark Jerng,author of Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National BelongingConcise, provocative, and utilizing expert resources, Choy's work greatly assists in the larger discussion of, and questions concerning, global family making and the points of view of the adoptees often left out of this discussion. -- Stephanie Phillips * Journal of Asian American Studies *Her book's strength is in the stories themselves, which Choy narrates with skill and sympathy. . . . A useful corrective to one-dimensional, romantic portraits of adoption that saturate popular culture today. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. -- K. Dubinsky * Choice *How has the sight of a little Asian girl with a white American family become so commonplace? In Catherine CenizaChoys sensitive and absorbing study, we learn that transnational adoptions reveal the intertwined stories not only of war, race, foreign policy, liberalism, and immigration, but also of intimacy, loss, and reconciliation.Choyhighlights the human, non-governmental, and personal ways in which Americas relationships with the world has touched and shaped us. -- Naoko Shibusawa,Brown UniversityOverall, Choys book is a welcome contribution to understandings of race during the Cold War, the shape of humanitarian adoptions, and the racialized aspects of adoptive kinship, and adoptee experience, all topics covered in five substantive chapters . . . . The book is written for a general audience and will be of interest for scholars of adoption history and politics, and American social work history, as well as historians and scholars of Asian migration to the United States, American studies, and Asian American history. -- Eleana Kim, University of RochesterAmidst the current decline in international adoption because of stricter laws and treatises and increasing activism against it,Global Families sheds light on an important question: How does international adoption contribute to the acceptance of marginalized biracial individuals in a multicultural society?....Furthermore, Choy situates international adoption within the ambit of history and Asian American studies and gives a critical space for discussing international adoption beyond the purview of family and social work studies. * Social Transformations *Choys ability to capture, passionately and compassionately, the particularities of individual, organizational, and national histories is the main strength of her book. Her concept of global family making deserves serious consideration as it bridges the micro and macro processes that come together to shape normative and non-normative family structures, including multiracial, queer, and extended family formations. . . . In Choys incisive and sensitive writing, I hope that [adoptive parents] will see themselves reflected not as & good or & bad individuals or families, but as participants in a collective saga of personal and political upheaval that is still unfolding. * Women's Review of Books *Global Familiesadds important analyses of race, empire, migration, and globalization to the scholarship on international adoption and studies of childhood more broadly. It is meticulously researched but also highly readable. * The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *In this engaging book, Choy looks at one aspect of this complex subject. . . . In a gripping final chapter, Choy turns to adopteesnow adultsand charts the ways they have used art to & talk back to triumphalist adoption narratives. Their art speaks to precisely what these narratives suppress: ambivalence, loss, grief, and racism. This pain does not ify adoptees commitment to their adopted families, but it does remind us that many adoption stories remain to be told. Choys book provides a wonderful start. * The Journal of American History *By redirecting attention to the historical foundations of contemporary adoption trends, this study places individual stories of child rescue so often valorized by the media within the broader context of debates that took place between adoptive parents, social services, and adoption agencies, and humanitarian organizations[T]his study makes a significant contribution to the fields of Asian American studies and adoption studies, demonstrating that the two need to be considered in tandem as well as through a more global lens. * Contemporary Sociology *[]Global Familiesis a concise and approachable introduction to the origins of Asian international adoption in the United States. In particular, its geographical focus on East Asia as a whole rather than on a single country, its plentitude of voices and actors, and its commitment to understanding the complexities of international adoption merit its incorporation into future studies and discussions on the history of adoption, Asian American history, and & global family making. * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: International Adoption Nation 1 Race and Rescue in Early Asian International Adoption History 2 The Hong Kong Project: Chinese International Adoption in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s 3 A World Vision: The Labor of Asian International Adoption 4 Global Family Making: Narratives by and about Adoptive Families 5 To Make Historical Their Own Stories: Adoptee Narratives as Asian American History Conclusion: New Geographies, Historical Legacies Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisHow transnational modernity is taking shape in and in relation to AsiaFashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia considers the role of bodily aesthetics in the shaping of Asian modernities and the formation of the so-called Asian Century. S. Heijin Lee, Christina H. Moon, and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu train our eyes on sites as far-flung, varied, and intimate as Guangzhou and Los Angeles, Saigon and Seoul, New York and Toronto. They map the transregional connections, ever-evolving aspirations and sensibilities, and new worlds and life paths forged through engagements with fashion and beauty.Contributors consider American influence on plastic surgery in Korea, Vietnamese debates about the fashionable, and the costs and commitments demanded of those who make and wear fast fashion, from Chinese garment workers to Nepalese nail technicians in New York who are mandated to dress fashionably. In doing so, this interdisciplinary anthology moves beyond common characterizationTrade ReviewAs Asia becomes increasingly central to the global fashion system, books like Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia become ever more important. -- Dr. Valerie Steele, Director, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of TechnologyFashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia is razor sharp in its framework and rigorous in its analysis. Eschewing tropes about the Asian continent and its oblique relationship to Western industries, the book maps new transnational circuits of exchange and offers readers fresh language to explain modernity, geopolitics, economics, and global taste cultures. It is so refreshing to read scholarship that takes fashion and beauty seriously. -- Tanisha C. Ford, author of Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion

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Book SynopsisThe struggles African American women and their adolescent daughters face in living healthy, active livesFrom heart disease and diabetes to HIV and obesity, Black women and girls face serious health risks, lagging behind their white counterparts by every measure of health, well-being, and fitness. In Black Women's Health, Michele Tracy Berger shows us why this is the case, exploring how the health needs of Black women and girls are uniquely rooted in their experiences with racism, sexism, and class discrimination. Drawing on interviews with mothers and their daughters, as well as compelling medical data, Berger provides insight into the larger patterns that place Black women at such high risk on a national level. She shows how Black mothers communicate with their daughters about health, sexuality, and intimacy, including how they attempt to promote healthy living standards even as they navigate widespread, systemic challenges. Ultimately, Berger highlights the important role that familyTrade Review"Michele Tracy Berger provides an insightful and innovative approach to understanding relational and historical factors influencing health and wellbeing for Black mothers and their adolescent daughters. Through first grounding readers in intersectionality and highlighting the significance of Black women-led health initiatives, such as First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move Campaign, Berger grounds readers in the critical importance of centering Black women’s perspectives to shift the paradigm of health and wellness. She then guides the reader through her rigorous qualitative research findings, organized by the worldviews of her focus group participants. Black Women's Health appropriately highlights the multidimensional characteristics of Black mothers, daughters, as well as the strengths and challenges of their dynamic contextualized relationships. This is a must read for any individual or group committed to positively influence the lives of Black women and girls." -- Cheryl L. Woods Giscombe, Melissa and Harry LeVine Family Professor of Quality of Life, Health Promotion and Wellness, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"The indelible bond between mother and daughter is both spiritual and physical. For Black mothers and daughters to engage in the exchange of herstories around health, as eloquently woven together by Michele Tracy Berger, elevates the collective narrative of Black girls’ and women’s health, seamlessly filling in the research gaps of Black women’s ways of knowing and demonstrating why Black women researchers are needed in discourse around Black women’s health. Berger’s focus on the lived experiences of Black girls’ and women is central to understanding the complexities of their lives. Rarely are Black girls and women in intimate conversation around health and sexuality; and while the conversations can unravel prior beliefs and knowledge, women’s words have the power to uncover, build and fortify.This effort, while centering Black Feminist and intersectionality scholarship, will do the same for efforts to address Black girls’ and women’s health." -- Jameta Nicole Barlow, Assistant Professor of Writing, Women's Leadership and Health Policy and Management, George Washington University

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Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, Theology and Religious Studies PROSE Award A powerful insight into the historical and cultural roles of the Black churchIf we are in a post-racial era, then what is the future of the Black Church? If the US will at some time in the future be free from discrimination and prejudices that are based on race how will that affect the church's very identity?In The Ground Has Shifted, Walter Earl Fluker passionately and thoroughly discusses the historical and current role of the Black church and argues that the older race-based language and metaphors of religious discourse have outlived their utility. He offers instead a larger, global vision for the Black church that focuses on young Black men and other disenfranchised groups who have been left behind in a world of globalized capital. Lyrically written with an emphasis on the dynamic and fluid movement of life itself, Fluker argues that the church must find new ways to use race as an emancipatory instrument if it is to reTrade ReviewFluker has a fresh approach to deal with the subject and provides new insights on the subject. It is meticulously researched and well-referenced. Walter Earl Fluker's scholarship is unmatchable. * The Washington Book Review *An exuberant, thought-provoking assessment of the dilemmas facing black churches. [A] passionate analysis and call for change. * STARRED Publishers Weekly *An important and perceptive contribution to the literature on religion and race. * Choice *Flukers book is thoroughly interesting as he studies the history and present of the black church Fluker brings us a work for todays church and a charge to connect that church to the world house. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *[T]imely and fascinating...The Ground Has Shifteddoes a masterful job of blending black religious thought, literature, critical theory, memoir, and personal experience. * Religion Dispatches *An excellent conversation starter to inspire holistic freedom for all people. -- The Journal of African American HistoryThe Ground Has Shifted analyses the ramifications of post-racialism in the black church and emphasizes the various ways that religious leaders and scholars can engage and re-evaluate critical questions; thus, coming up with clear and concise solutions towards historical problems of race, and sexualized and gendered politics of the church … The author paves a way for a new generation of church leaders, scholars, and activists for them to reclaim the black church’s historical identity of being the pivotal force within the community, while also instilling character, civility, and a sense of community among its congregants once again. -- Black TheologyThe Ground Has Shifted addresses questions being posed by a historical Black Church caught between its piety, the politics of respectability, and a cataclysmic shifting of the taken-for-granted realities of a besieged/blessed people. I will buy and teach this book as often as I can. What an amazing contribution to the literature. -- Barbara A. Holmes,President Emerita of United Theological Seminary of the Twin CitiesThis is the most decisive statement on post-racialism, the American dilemma, and black church positive agency. On each page, Fluker's writing moans and wails us out of southern African American religiosity, up north into the fragmentation of black urban life, and into an ethical world of hope for an America becoming. A defining direction and persuasive proposal on how to get us to healthy community. -- Dwight N. Hopkins,author of Being Human: Race, Culture, and ReligionWalter Fluker is the towering theorist of the Black Church and the unapologetic lover of the black prophetic tradition. This powerful and timely book is sophisticated, subtle, and rich. And it soars with a deep, long memory alive in the present a present that reeks of a 'cultural asylum' that he notes the Black Lives Movement is shattering! -- Dr. Cornel WestFlukers judicious use of personal reflection provides an exciting affirmation that our black lives and our black churches really do matter as important standpoints for engaging spirituality, renewing the national imaginary, and enhancing the human condition. -- Cheryl Townsend Gilkes,Colby CollegeThe Ground Has Shifted puts forward a passionate challenge to the Black Church and all those who profess to stand in the prophetic Black Church tradition. It is a powerful and provocative treatment of the role and place of this venerable institution and the Gospel that gives it life. But more than that, the book offers a blueprint for a way forwarda pathway that involves "reclaiming [our] humanity through the integrity of the act"; to find beauty and grace in the dark places of what it means to live in this world without the burdens of ghosts. Beautiful written; passionately argued. A must read! -- Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.,author of Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American SoulThis is a very important work that challenges all who read it to continue to search for answers to the growing crisis of faith in the black community, answers that will provide a viable way forward for black Christians and their churches in the challenging years ahead. * The Journal of Religion *

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Book SynopsisIntroduces the dynamic process out of which social movements in Black America, Japan, and Okinawa formed Afro-Asian solidarities against the practice of white supremacy in the twentieth century.Trade Review"In its best moments, Transnational Antiracism offers a complex and multifaceted understanding of international struggles for liberation and solidarity as occurring organically from the bottom up. History should ideally be seen as making sense of the big picture through an account of the smaller fragments and individuals who lived within the moments in question. At times, Onishi shows that his mastery of this aforementioned point is most profound. . . . Scholars of contemporary African American and Japanese history stand to gain much from Onishis efforts.Transpacific Anitracism reminds us that any striving towards mutual understanding and change is a utopian dream, both fragile and fleeting. In doing so, Onishi has helped to expand our understanding of what Afro-Asian solidarity was in times past and can be in times yet to come." * Social Science Japan Journal *"Onishi is unapologetically hopeful that another world is possible. He ends the book with a story about a time when he taught African American studies to a class of mostly African descent. It was challenging for all involved, but they managed to create a discursive space of understanding. As Onishi concludes: 'contained in this experience was a tale of utopian potential.'" * The Journal of American History *"[Onishi] adds to the new, growing, but still under-studied scholarly field of African Americans in the transpacific context." -- Y. Kiuchi * Choice *"In this exhaustively researched and beautifully written book, Onishi uncovers a hidden history of Afro-Asian radicalism and internationalism. He presents bold and generative arguments about the ways in which the affiliation of kindred spirits across the Pacific enabled anti-racist intellectuals and activists from Japan and the U.S. to forge a new philosophy of world history and formulate practical programs for liberation." -- George Lipsitz,author of How Racism Takes Place"This fascinating and ground-breaking book offers a new window into the vital history of Afro-Asiansolidarity against empire and white supremacy. Meticulously researched, it recovers the epistemological breakthroughsthat emerged at the intersection of radical struggle and geographical reorientation. Through hissharp analysis of cross-cultural andtransnational collectivity, Onishi provides a guidepost for all those interested in the study of utopian, boundary-crossing projects of the past, as well as the creation of future ones." -- Scott Kurashige,author of The Shifting Grounds of Race and co-author of The Next American Revolution"Yuichiro Onishis Transpacific Antiracism is a unique and valuable contribution to the scholarship on Afro-Asian relationsthere are things that Onishi does that few have done before" * American Studies *"Transpacific Antiracism contributes invaluably to the study of social movements. . . . It beautifully captures the desire of oppressed people to develop revolutionary ideas and practices by learning from 'ancestors'whose skin color might have differed from their own." * Against the Current *"Yuichiro Onishi has provided several interesting case studies of groups that hoped to forge a trans-Pacific coalition against imperialism and racism." * Labour *"By tracing the spread of racial discourse through expressive and political texts rather than individuals, Onishi shows how ideas flow in less regulated ways. Transpacific antiracism can be found in various discourses of liberation and freedom and forms the foundation for Afro-Asian solidarity. By focusing on the way black thought intervenes in black internationalism informed by Japans global aspirations, the book continues the excavation work on various modes of Afro-Asian dynamics. This work continues to expand our notions of black intellectualism by making it part of a global intellectual tradition that impacts a wide range of groups and individuals engaged in liberation work." * Journal of American Studies *"Transpacific Antiracismintervenes superbly in the new and growing body of historical scholarship on Afro-Asian radicalism. It should be required reading for historians interested in complicating the historical narratives on the & United States in the world by placing it within an African American, transpacific context." * Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments viiNotes on Japanese Sources and Names xiIntroduction: Du Bois's Challenge 1Part I: Discourses1 New Negro Radicalism and Pro-Japan Provocation 192 W. E. B. Du Bois's Afro-Asian Philosophy of World History 54Part II: Collectives3 The Making of "Colored-Internationalism" in Postwar Japan 974 The Presence of (Black) Liberation in Occupied Okinawa 138Conclusion: We Who Become Together 183Notes 189Bibliography 217Index 233About the Author 243

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Book SynopsisWritten over a period of more than two decades, Colour Matters is a collection of essays that shows how race informs the aspirational pursuits of Black youth in the Greater Toronto Area.Table of ContentsForeword D. Alissa Trotz Introduction: Exploring the Social and Educational Experiences of Black Canadian Youth Over Time 1. Historical and Social Context of the Schooling and Education of African Canadians Response: Complicating Gender and Racial Identities within the Study of Educational History Funke Aladejebi 2. Generational Differences in Black Students’ School Performance Response: It’s the Same with Black British Caribbean Pupils Shirley Anne Tate 3. “To make a better future”: Narrative of a 1.5 Generation Caribbean-Canadian Response: Using Gender to Think Through Migration, Love, and Student Success Amoaba Gooden 4. Students “at risk”: Stereotypes and the Schooling of Black Boys Response: Black Lives Matter in the USA and Canada Joyce E. King 5. More than Brains and Hard Work: The Aspirations and Career Trajectories of Two Young Black Men Response: What Folks Don’t Get: Race and Class Matter Annette M. Henry 6. Class, Race, and Schooling in the Performance of Black Male Athleticism Response: Basketball’s Black Creative Labour and the Mitigation of Anti-Black Schooling Mark V. Campbell 7. Troubling Role Models: Seeing Racialization in the Discourse Relating to “Corrective Agents” for Black Males Response: Black Role Models and Mentorship Under Racial Capitalism Sam Tecle 8. “Up to No Good”: Black on the Streets and Encountering Police Response: It Could Have Been Written Today: A Montrealer’s Reflection Adelle Blackett 9. “Colour Matters”: Suburban Life as Social Mobility and its High Cost for Black Youth Response: Respectability Politics and the Search for Upward Mobility in Canada Andrea A. Davis 10. Toward Equity in Education for Black Students Response: “I will treat all my students with respect”: The Limits to Good Intentions Leanne Taylor Epilogue Michele A. Johnson Acknowledgements Biographies of Contributors/Respondents

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Book SynopsisWithout the State explores the 201314 Euromaidan protests a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine through in-depth ethnographic research with leftist, feminist, and student activists in Kyiv. The book discusses the concept of self-organization and the notion that if something needs to be done and a person has the competence to do it, then they should simply do it. Emily Channell-Justice reveals how self-organization in Ukraine came out of leftist practices but actors from across the spectrum of political views also adopted self-organization over the course of Euromaidan, including far-right groups. The widespread adoption of self-organization encouraged Ukrainians to rethink their expectations of the relationship between citizens and their state. The book explains how self-organized practices have changed people’s views on what they think they can contribute to their own communities, and in the wake of Russia’s renewed invasion of UkraineTrade Review“Anchored in events in Kyiv in 2013–2014, Without the State offers insights relevant for other societies that were once part of the Soviet Union and that may be currently engaged in their own efforts to extricate themselves from Moscow’s grasp. This book sheds needed light on the ideational struggles of people worldwide seeking participatory alternatives to the neoliberal economic order.” -- Jessica Pisano, New School for Social Research * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Note on Language Introduction: “we provide the content of Maidan!” 1. Without Any Help from the State: Self-Organization in Ukraine 2. Twenty-First Century Leftists 3. Decommunization and National Ideology 4. #LeftMaidan: Violence, Repression, and Re-creation 5. “For free education”: Education Activism and Maidan 6. “These aren’t your values”: Gender and Nation on Maidan Conclusion: Volunteerism after Maidan Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWithout the State explores the 201314 Euromaidan protests a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine through in-depth ethnographic research with leftist, feminist, and student activists in Kyiv. The book discusses the concept of self-organization and the notion that if something needs to be done and a person has the competence to do it, then they should simply do it. Emily Channell-Justice reveals how self-organization in Ukraine came out of leftist practices but actors from across the spectrum of political views also adopted self-organization over the course of Euromaidan, including far-right groups. The widespread adoption of self-organization encouraged Ukrainians to rethink their expectations of the relationship between citizens and their state. The book explains how self-organized practices have changed people’s views on what they think they can contribute to their own communities, and in the wake of Russia’s renewed invasion of UkraineTrade Review“Anchored in events in Kyiv in 2013–2014, Without the State offers insights relevant for other societies that were once part of the Soviet Union and that may be currently engaged in their own efforts to extricate themselves from Moscow’s grasp. This book sheds needed light on the ideational struggles of people worldwide seeking participatory alternatives to the neoliberal economic order.” -- Jessica Pisano, New School for Social Research * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Note on Language Introduction: “we provide the content of Maidan!” 1. Without Any Help from the State: Self-Organization in Ukraine 2. Twenty-First Century Leftists 3. Decommunization and National Ideology 4. #LeftMaidan: Violence, Repression, and Re-creation 5. “For free education”: Education Activism and Maidan 6. “These aren’t your values”: Gender and Nation on Maidan Conclusion: Volunteerism after Maidan Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJames Walker documents their experience in Canada, following them across the Atlantic as they became part of a unique colonial experiment in Sierra Leone.

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Book SynopsisA historical narrative and critical analysis of higher education centred on the experiences of Black students and faculty at McGill University.Trade Review"Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University is an important scholarly contribution to educational history broadly and more specifically in its documentation of Black experiences in Canadian universities. It is a welcomed intervention in the institutional histories of the Canadian academy that is often whitewashed and actively erases the presence and activism of Black students, faculty, and community members." -- Natasha Henry * Historical Studies in Education, Vol. 33, No. 1 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Prelude Finding a Conversation "Becoming" an Activist 1. Introduction: The University as a Site of Struggle Settler Colonialism and Education: A Brief Overview The Canadian University Whose University? The 1960s Black Educational Activism and Black (Canadian) Studies Neoliberalism and the University On Critical Race Counter-Storytelling 2. Colonial Legacies and Canadian Ivy Meeting James McGill Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Economy The University and its Sponsors McGill Lineage 3. Trying to Keep Canada White and the Power to Write History McGill and the Modernization of Québec Anticolonial Resistance and Black Power Toward a New Millennium Conclusion: On a Critical Engagement with History 4. The Idealized Elite University Class and Class-Minded-ness "The McGill Bubble": A "Sea of Whiteness" White Hallways by Cora-Lee Conway The professoriate On Mentorship and Academic "Expertise" The Power of the Prof Conclusion: Expectations Meet Experience 5. Being and Becoming Black A Word on Whiteness Socialization in a Culture of Whiteness "I didn’t know I was Black" Black Canadian "identity problems" Managing Interlocking Stereotype Threats Construction Work Black as in Radical, Radical as in Rooted Community and Communing Conclusion: Navigating and Resisting Racialization and Colonial Ideology 6. Serving Up Resistance "Diversity & equity" work Hiring committees The Africana Studies Committee Mapping Power and Informed Decision Making Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisBased on research conducted in Black communities, along with over thirty years of teaching experience, Colour Matters presents a collection of essays that engages educators, youth workers, and policymakers to think about the ways in which race shapes the education, aspirations, and achievements of Black Canadians. Informed by the current socio-political Canadian landscape, Colour Matters covers topics relating to the lives of Black youth, with particular, though not exclusive, attention to young Black men in the Greater Toronto Area. The essays reflect the issues and concerns of the past thirty years, and question what has changed and what has remained the same. Each essay is accompanied by an insightful response from a scholar engaging with topics such as immigration, schooling, athletics, mentorship, and police surveillance. With the perspectives of scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, Colour Matters provides provocative narrTable of ContentsForeword D. Alissa Trotz Introduction: Exploring the Social and Educational Experiences of Black Canadian Youth Over Time 1. Historical and Social Context of the Schooling and Education of African Canadians Response: Complicating Gender and Racial Identities within the Study of Educational History Funke Aladejebi 2. Generational Differences in Black Students’ School Performance Response: It’s the Same with Black British Caribbean Pupils Shirley Anne Tate 3. “To make a better future”: Narrative of a 1.5 Generation Caribbean-Canadian Response: Using Gender to Think Through Migration, Love, and Student Success Amoaba Gooden 4. Students “at risk”: Stereotypes and the Schooling of Black Boys Response: Black Lives Matter in the USA and Canada Joyce E. King 5. More than Brains and Hard Work: The Aspirations and Career Trajectories of Two Young Black Men Response: What Folks Don’t Get: Race and Class Matter Annette M. Henry 6. Class, Race, and Schooling in the Performance of Black Male Athleticism Response: Basketball’s Black Creative Labour and the Mitigation of Anti-Black Schooling Mark V. Campbell 7. Troubling Role Models: Seeing Racialization in the Discourse Relating to “Corrective Agents” for Black Males Response: Black Role Models and Mentorship Under Racial Capitalism Sam Tecle 8. “Up to No Good”: Black on the Streets and Encountering Police Response: It Could Have Been Written Today: A Montrealer’s Reflection Adelle Blackett 9. “Colour Matters”: Suburban Life as Social Mobility and its High Cost for Black Youth Response: Respectability Politics and the Search for Upward Mobility in Canada Andrea A. Davis 10. Toward Equity in Education for Black Students Response: “I will treat all my students with respect”: The Limits to Good Intentions Leanne Taylor Epilogue Michele A. Johnson Acknowledgements Biographies of Contributors/Respondents

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Book SynopsisThis book explores relations between smartness and social justice, and questions whether working toward more just and sustainable cities requires that we look beyond the limitations of smartness altogether.Table of ContentsList of Figures Contributors Toward Urban Digital Justice: The Smart City as an Empty Signifier Part 1: Challenging the Foundations of Smart Dialogue with Stephen Graham 1. Who Is Telling the Smart City Story? Feminist Diffractions of Smart Cities 2. More Queer, More than Human: Challenges for Thinking Digital Justice in the Smart City 3. Urbanists in the Smart City: Sidewalks, Sidewalk Labs, and the Limits to “Complexity” 4. COVID-19 and the Co-evolution of Conspiratorial Urban Systems 5. Reimagining Smart Citizenship, Reconciling (Im)partial Truths: POFMA, Digital Data, and Singapore’s Smart Nation Part 2: Data Decisioning and Data Justice Dialogue with Rob Kitchin 6. Coding Out Justice: Digital Platforms’ Enclosure of Public Transit in Cities 7. Epistemic (In)justice in a Smart City – Proto-smart and Post-smart Infrastructures for Urban Data 8. The Politics of Re-membering: Inequity, Governance, and Biodegradable Data in the Smart City 9. The Data City as Public Experiment? Part 3: Infrastructures of Injustice Dialogue with Vincent Mosco 10. Good and Evil in the Autonomous City 11. Pornhub Helps: Digital Corporations in Italian Pandemic Cities 12. Trajectories of Data-Driven Urbanism and the Case of Intelligent Transport Systems 13. The Parking Problem and Limits of Urban Digitalization 14. On the Contradictions of the (Climate) Smart City in the Context of Socio-Environmental Crisis Part 4: Complicated and Complicating Digital Divides Dialogue with Ayona Datta 15. Decolonizing the Smart City: Excess and Appropriation of Uber Eats in Santiago de Chile 16. Does Formalization Make a City Smarter? Towards Post-elitist Smart Cities 17. The Smart City and COVID-19: New Digital Divides amid Hyper-connectivity 18. Beyond the Digital Divide: Libraries Enabling the Just Smart City 19. Struggling Zones, Stagnant Cities, Inner Regions: Just Renewal through Smartness in Saint John, New Brunswick? Part 5: Urban Citizenship and Participation Dialogue with Alison Powell 20. Smart Citizenship, Self-Organizing Communities, and Cybernetic Urbanism 21. Emerging Inequalities in Citizen-Centric Smart City Development: The “Perceptible” Initiatives in Taipei 22. The Challenges of Fostering Citizenship in the Smart City 23. From Smart to Sharing Cities: Towards Urban Social Justice in the Digital Age 24. Structuring More, Inclusive, and Smart Participation in Planning: Lessons from the Field

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Book SynopsisQuestioning the Chinese Model sheds light on oppositional political novels produced in early twenty-first century China.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Rise of Oppositional Chinese Political Novels Chinese Political Fiction in the Twentieth Century Sociopolitical Crisis and Re-politicization of Society in the New Century Propitious Circumstances for Political Articulation Scope, Themes, Methodology, and Structure of the Book 1. Destruction of Communist Myths Them versus Us: Subversion of the Party-People Myth From Critics to Servants: Changed Role of Chinese Intellectuals after Tiananmen Nationalism as State Ideology Ideologization of Morality, Hedonism, and Political Acquiescence Summary 2. Wolf Totem: Paradoxical Eulogy to a Culture Wolf Totem and Mongolian Correlative Cosmology Social Darwinism, Reverse Chauvinism, and Nationalism A Wolf Destroyed by the “Wolf Logic” Ideological Hegemony behind a Literary Sensation Summary 3. Lenin’s Kisses: Absurdity, Dehumanization, and Dilemma of the Chinese Utopia Revolution as Nightmare Contemporary Freak Show: Absurdity and Cruelty of the Biopolitics of a Utopia “With Money, Anything Is Possible” Arbitrariness of Power, Sustainability of Dictatorship, and Dead-End Future Summary 4. Such Is This World@sars.come: Dictatorship as a Fatal Disease “Lockdown” as Social Reality and Political Allegory The Terrifying “Old Crone” behind the Screen The Chinese Intelligentsia after Tiananmen: Cynicism and Division Two Faces of the Party: Ugliness behind a Lovely Mask Summary 5. The Fat Years: Social Injustice, Forced Amnesia, Distorted Mentality, and Fascism Fake Paradise: Darkness behind the Chinese “Miracle” Falsified History and Forced Amnesia Mental Distortion and Spiritual Agony “Fascism? We Are Only in Its Early Stages!” Summary 6. The Seventh Day: Dystopian Wasteland versus Modern Peach Blossom Spring Bloody Predation and Deceptive Propaganda Destruction of Sanctified Human Feelings Banality of Evil: Callous Indifference and Moral Corruption Peach Blossom Spring: Utopia of Truth, Love, and Happiness Summary Epilogue: Limits of Transgression and Mechanisms of Counter-Censorship Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEsperanza Speaks examines a century-long process of socioeconomic change in rural Panama through the experiences of one woman, Esperanza Ruiz, and four generations of her family. The intimate narrative shows how ordinary people, through their choices and actions, are affected by and, in turn, can affect how history unfolds. Readers see Esperanza’s family as both victims and protagonists in their own histories. Born into rural poverty with limited options, they still find small openings to try to improve their lives. Sometimes successful, sometimes not, they survive by drawing on their only abundant resource: each other. Based on twenty field visits over the course of fifty years, Esperanza Speaks is the result of a dedicated anthropologist’s long-term engagement with the individuals of a single community, and a beautiful example of ethnographic storytelling.Trade Review"Rudolf’s combination of vivid storytelling, clear analysis, and relevant historical sidebars make the book a provocative, poignant discussion starter for early undergraduates." -- Marian Ahn Thorpe, Princeton University * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsIllustrations Boxes Acknowledgments People You Will Meet The Ruiz Family: Kinship Chart Introductions 1. The Isthmus of Panama: Two Different Worlds (pre-1920s) 2. Childhood: As Soon as I Opened My Eyes (1920s–1930s) 3. Youth: I Could Always Quit and Go Home (1940s–1950s) 4. Adult: A Voice Meant to Be Heard (1960s–1980s) 5. Elder: Doors Open, Doors Close (1990s–2019) 6. Next Generations: Who’s Heading Home Again? (2019) Concluding Thoughts Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRubén Darío (1867-1916) of Nicaragua was the leader of the important Latin American literary movement known as Modernism. He is considered by many to be the greatest poet in Latin American literature, and the volume of writings devoted to his work since 1884 is perhaps greater than that on any other writer in the history of Spanish American literature. The celebration in 1967 of the centenary of his birth gave rise to a formidable number of new analyses, increasing the need for the classification and assessment of the many studies.In this book Professor Ellis examines and evaluates the wide range of methods and perspectives available to the reader of Darío's works. He considers the biographical approach, social and political questions, influences and sources, structural analysis (providing three structural studies of his own), and, in an appendix, Darío's own concept of the role of the literary critic. His book is comprehensive both in time and in range, and includes an up-to

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Book SynopsisOffers a critical anthology of Los Angeles's most significant English-language and Spanish-language nonfiction writing from the city's inception to the present. Contemporary Latinx authors, including three Pulitzer Prize winners, focus on the ways in which Latinx Los Angeles's nonfiction narratives record the progressive racialization and subalternization of Latinxs in the southwestern US.Trade Review"A vital addition to Latinx studies."—Y. Fuentes, Choice"Latinx Writing Los Angeles extends the archive of LA literature in provocative and meaningful ways."—Monika Kaup, American Literary History"This selection of writings from sixteen outstanding contributors presents a refreshing view of the Latinx experience in Los Angeles."—Martin Camps, Hispania"Whoever ventures into a course on Latino identity will be well served reading this volume in which one and all of its entries contain the keys as to why, after so many years, we continue feeling so close yet far from being American. In this book, Los Angeles serves not only as a global city but also a compendium of happiness and misery, due to the reiterated intents to immobilize us. López Calvo and Valle confide in the chronicle. In times of uncertain journalism, it is more reliable."—Revista Iberoamericana“Ignacio López-Calvo and Victor Valle have assembled an intriguing anthology of how and what Mexican Americans and other U.S. Latinx think about Los Angeles. Its other virtue, a provocative pair of essays on the city’s literary culture, proposes a critical agenda for reimagining an urban practice of humanities at this time of anti-immigrant hysteria.”—David William Foster, Regents’ Professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University and author of São Paulo: Perspectives on the City and Cultural Production “This book will pump new life into future reviews of Los Angeles’s literature, strengthen the city’s grasp on the peoples and facts of its opaque history, and stimulate teachers to imagine, with their students, a better democracy for all. This finely written book, in both its critical vision and more than a dozen examples of liberating journalism, is a strong step toward an urban humanities that puts Latinx nonfiction writing about LA, for the first time maybe, into the ‘We’ of ‘We the People’ of the global city.”—Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at Harvard Divinity School “With inspired juxtapositions, the editors give us a pathbreaking volume that contextualizes and historicizes their unexpected selections to reveal a too often unspoken genealogy of Los Angeles Latinx nonfiction.”—Otto Santa Ana, professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California at Los AngelesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments LA’s Latina/o Phantom Nonfiction and the Technologies of Literary Secrecy Victor Valle Decolonizing Latina/o Nonfiction in LA’s Writing Ignacio López-Calvo and Victor Valle Selections 1. “With the Amicable People of Ensenada de Palmas”: Excerpt from Breve relación de la nueva entrada al sur, en la copiosa gentilidad de la nación de los coras . . . , por el padre Ignacio María Napoli, S.J. 2. The Public Outcry. Noteworthy Pamphlet Francisco Ramírez 3. The Repercussions of a Lynching Ricardo Flores Magón 4. To Womankind, a Manifesto Blanca de Moncaleano 5. Excerpt from “The Memoirs of Alfredo Cobos” Alfredo Cobos 6. Excerpts from The Journals of Anaïs Nin Anaïs Nin 7. Bert Corona’s “Struggle Is the Ultimate Teacher” Jesús Mena 8. Beach Blanket Baja Helena María Viramontes 9. “The ‘Good Old Mission Days’ Never Existed”: Excerpt from The Medicine of Memory: A Mexica Clan in California Alejandro Murguía 10. Light at the End of Tunnel Vision: In Memory of Gerardo Velázquez and Ray Navarro Harry Gamboa Jr. 11. “Deported to the North”: Excerpt from Dangerous Border Crossings: The Artist Talks Back Guillermo Gómez-Peña 12. Lights Nylsa Martínez 13. Movie Version: “Hell to Eternity” Sesshu Foster 14. Americanismo: City of Peasants, Los Angeles, California Héctor Tobar 15. “The Boy Left Behind”: Excerpt from Enrique’s Journey Sonia Nazario 16. My Father’s House Rubén Martínez Source Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography

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Book Synopsis Mexicans in Alaska analyzes the mobility and experience of place of three generations of migrants who have been moving between Acuitzio del Canje, Michoacán, Mexico, and Anchorage, Alaska, since the 1950s. Based on Sara V. Komarnisky’s twelve months of ethnographic research at both sites and on more than ten years of engagement with the people in these locations, this book reveals that over time, Acuitzences have created a comprehensive sense of orientation within a transnational social field. Both locationsand the common experience of mobility between them are essential for feeling “at home.” This migrant way of life requires the development of a transnational habitus as well as the skills, statuses, and knowledge required to live in both places. Komarnisky’s work presents a multigenerational and cross-continental understanding of the contemporary transnational experience.Mexicans in Alaska examines how Acuitzences are liviTrade Review"Sara Komarnisky provides a needed intervention in Latin American and Latinx studies through her ethnographic study of Mexicans in Alaska, an area severely understudied to date."—Jennifer Domino Rudolph, Americas"Mexicans in Alaska is a comprehensive and humane consideration of the desirable qualities and underestimated ingenuity and rigors informing the mobility and place-making of Mexican people in Alaska and Acuitzio del Canje, pointing to the undervalued diversity from within shaping Mexican immigrant and Mexican American family investments and life throughout the United States and its history."—Ana E. Rosas, Alaska Journal of Anthropology"I truly enjoyed reading this rich ethnography. It is thoroughly researched, and the writing is clear and engaging. It is also theoretically provocative and methodologically sophisticated."—Leah Schmalzbauer, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies“A solid contribution to social science scholarship. Its inclusion of three generations of migrants provides a nice depth of time not often found in ethnographic scholarship, and its focus on Alaska as part of ‘greater Mexico’ is a novel and important contribution to the scholarship on migration in the United States.”—Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz, associate professor of anthropology at Loyola University Chicago “Mexicans in Alaska enriches the study of migration through its lucid ethnography and theorizing. . . . By exploring the different dimensions of mobility across the continent in multigenerational networks, Mexicans in Alaska brings a new understanding to the social and material relations that extend between localities, not nations. An engaging ethnography.”—Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences and professor of anthropology at the University of OregonTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Acuitzences in Alaska Introduction: Yes, There Are Mexicans in Alaska 1. Tracing Mexican Alaska: A Transnational Social Space 2. The Annual Migration of the Traveling Swallows: Shared Experiences of Mobility across North America 3. “My Grandfather Worked Here”: Three Generations of the Bravo Family in Alaska and Michoacán 4. “You Have to Get Used to It”: Living the North American Dream 5. The Stuff of Transnational Life: Suitcases Full of Mole, T-Shirts, Roosters, and Other Things That Move 6. “It Freezes the People Together”: Producing a Mexican Alaska Conclusion: Freedom to Move Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis Mexicans in Alaska analyzes the mobility and experience of place of three generations of migrants who have been moving between Acuitzio del Canje, Michoacán, Mexico, and Anchorage, Alaska, since the 1950s. Based on Sara V. Komarnisky’s twelve months of ethnographic research at both sites and on more than ten years of engagement with the people in these locations, this book reveals that over time, Acuitzences have created a comprehensive sense of orientation within a transnational social field. Both locationsand the common experience of mobility between them are essential for feeling “at home.” This migrant way of life requires the development of a transnational habitus as well as the skills, statuses, and knowledge required to live in both places. Komarnisky’s work presents a multigenerational and cross-continental understanding of the contemporary transnational experience.Mexicans in Alaska examines how Acuitzences are liviTrade Review"Sara Komarnisky provides a needed intervention in Latin American and Latinx studies through her ethnographic study of Mexicans in Alaska, an area severely understudied to date."—Jennifer Domino Rudolph, Americas"Mexicans in Alaska is a comprehensive and humane consideration of the desirable qualities and underestimated ingenuity and rigors informing the mobility and place-making of Mexican people in Alaska and Acuitzio del Canje, pointing to the undervalued diversity from within shaping Mexican immigrant and Mexican American family investments and life throughout the United States and its history."—Ana E. Rosas, Alaska Journal of Anthropology"I truly enjoyed reading this rich ethnography. It is thoroughly researched, and the writing is clear and engaging. It is also theoretically provocative and methodologically sophisticated."—Leah Schmalzbauer, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies“A solid contribution to social science scholarship. Its inclusion of three generations of migrants provides a nice depth of time not often found in ethnographic scholarship, and its focus on Alaska as part of ‘greater Mexico’ is a novel and important contribution to the scholarship on migration in the United States.”—Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz, associate professor of anthropology at Loyola University Chicago “Mexicans in Alaska enriches the study of migration through its lucid ethnography and theorizing. . . . By exploring the different dimensions of mobility across the continent in multigenerational networks, Mexicans in Alaska brings a new understanding to the social and material relations that extend between localities, not nations. An engaging ethnography.”—Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences and professor of anthropology at the University of OregonTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Acuitzences in Alaska Introduction: Yes, There Are Mexicans in Alaska 1. Tracing Mexican Alaska: A Transnational Social Space 2. The Annual Migration of the Traveling Swallows: Shared Experiences of Mobility across North America 3. “My Grandfather Worked Here”: Three Generations of the Bravo Family in Alaska and Michoacán 4. “You Have to Get Used to It”: Living the North American Dream 5. The Stuff of Transnational Life: Suitcases Full of Mole, T-Shirts, Roosters, and Other Things That Move 6. “It Freezes the People Together”: Producing a Mexican Alaska Conclusion: Freedom to Move Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This interaction produced powerful, racialized national identity discourses whose influence continues to resonate in today’s culture and politics. Ethnologists, anthropologists, and raciologists compared modern physical types with ancient skeletal finds to unearth the deep prehistoric past and true nature of nations. These scientists understood certain physical types to be what Richard McMahon calls “national races,” or the ageless biological essences of nations. Contributors to this volume address a central tension in anthropological race classification. On one hand, classifiers were nationalists who explicitly or implicitly used race narratives to promote political agendas. Their accounts of prehistoric geopolitics treated “national races” as the proxies of nations in order to legitimize present-day geopolitiTrade Review"This major scholarly collection explores the history of physical anthropology from intentionally unusual angles that challenge intuitive assumptions. It also charts engagements and altercations with humanistic ethnological scholarship, including folklore, amid a host of revealingly varied nationalist aspirations."—Michael Herzfeld, Journal of Folklore Research"A rich collection about the rise of physical anthropology, ethnology, and race science in the 19th century, National Races emphasizes the importance of placing these disciplines in a transnational, national, and imperial context. By highlighting forgotten mid-19th-century debates about mono- and polygenism, and employing case studies focused on Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, Korea, and Yugoslavia to decenter the Western European core-focused narratives of these disciplines’ emergence, the volume recovers a rich set of liberal, transnational, and local ideas in their development, thus challenging teleological narratives of a straight road from turn-of-the-century craniometry and serology to the eugenic practices and exclusionary biological racism of interwar fascist regimes."—A. Vari, Choice“In important ways, both implicitly and explicitly, Richard McMahon demonstrates that the fear of immigration and anti-immigration policies in Europe and the United States are tied to previous fears and anxiety about the construction of national races. McMahon provides an extensive overview and impeccable research to describe the transnational science of racial classification during a pivotal century in the modern era.”—Lee Baker, Mrs. Alexander Hehmeyer Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University“National Races is innovative and promising—and fills a significant gap in the international literature. It builds on studies of physical anthropology, nationalism (or national identity politics), imperialism, modernity, and warfare and attempts to bring these into connection. There is every reason to believe that the book will be a standard work in an interdisciplinary and transnational field of studies that has hardly been circumscribed and never been covered in any detail.”—Han F. Vermeulen, Max Planck Institute for Social AnthropologyTable of ContentsList of Figures Series Editors’ Introduction Introduction: Political Identities and Transnational Science Richard McMahon 1. Transnational Network, Transnational Narratives: Scientific Race Classifications and National Identities Richard McMahon 2. The Destiny of Races “Not Yet Called to Civilization”: Giustiniano Nicolucci’s Critique of American Polygenism and Defense of Liberal Racism Maria Sophia Quine 3. A Matter of Place, Space, and People: Cracow Anthropology, 1870–1920 Maria Rhode 4. Yet Another Greek Tragedy? Physical Anthropology and the Construction of National Identity in the Late Nineteenth Century Ageliki Lefkaditou 5. Jews between Volk and Rasse Amos Morris-Reich 6. Classifying Hybridity in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Russian Imperial Anthropology Marina Mogilner 7. Physical Anthropology in Colonial Korea: Science and Colonial Order, 1916–1940 Arnaud Nanta 8. Racial Anthropology on the Eastern Front, 1912 to the Mid-1920s Maciej Górny 9. Racial Politics as a Multiethnic Pavilion: Yugoslavs, Dinarics, and the Search for a Synthetic Identity in the 1920s and 1930s Rory Yeomans Conclusion: From National Races to National Genomes Catherine Nash Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisA 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIntersectionality intervenes in the field of intersectionality studies: the integrative examination of the effects of racial, gendered, and class power on people’s lives. While “intersectionality” circulates as a buzzword, Anna Carastathis joins other critical voices to urge a more careful reading. Challenging the narratives of arrival that surround it, Carastathis argues that intersectionality is a horizon, illuminating ways of thinking that have yet to be realized; consequently, calls to “go beyond” intersectionality are premature. A provisional interpretation of intersectionality can disorient habits of essentialism, categorial purity, and prototypicality and overcome dynamics of segregation and subordination in political movements. Through a close reading of critical race theorist Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s germinal texts, published more than twenty-five yeTrade Review“This is, perhaps, Carastathis’s greatest insight: she urges us to think about intersectionality as a ‘profoundly destabilizing, productively disorienting, provisional concept’ whose work remains to be done. In this account, intersectionality refers to our desire to keep dreaming of a more just social world.”—Jennifer C. Nash, American Quarterly "Intersectionality follows a clear theoretical arc and stages multiple interventions throughout, making it a resource for one well versed in the field or encountering it for the first time."—Desiree Valentine, Critical Philosophy of Race"Anna Carastathis confronts an enduring obstacle to taking up intersectionality's potential: she illustrates how an ongoing, monist fragmentation of identities, communities, politics, and perceptions buttresses power hierarchies and reinforces exclusion by design."—Vivian M. May, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy“Better theory is what Carastathis wants, and that implies for her a more fundamental critique of naturalized and essentialized groups and a ‘profoundly destabilizing, productively disorienting, provisional concept that disaggregates false unities, undermines false universalisms, and unsettles false entitlements.’”—Myra Marx Ferree, Contemporary Sociology"Carastathis’s citational practices and the subsequent conversations she generates are a vital intervention in this current moment in academia. For both novices and experts in black feminist theories, this book is a crucial review of the literature for all academics at any stage of their career, especially those scholars naming their work as 'intersectional.'"—R. Aliah Ajamoughli, Journal of Folklore Research“Anna Carastathis’s careful and sustained engagement with Kimberlé Crenshaw’s work is uniquely illuminating and helpful.”—Zenzele Isoke, author of Urban Black Women and the Politics of ResistanceTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Intersectionality, Black Feminist Thought, and Women-of-Color Organizing 2. Basements and Intersections 3. Intersectionality as a Provisional Concept 4. Critical Engagements with Intersectionality 5. Identities as Coalitions 6. Intersectionality and Decolonial Feminism Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisIn a gathering of griot traditions fusing storytelling, cultural history, social, and literary criticism, Gale P. Jackson re-members and represents how women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience in song, dance, and poetics in performance.Trade Review"Both relatable and scholarly, this is a fascinating and original study."—T. L. Stowell, Choice“The particular significance of this rich scholarship is the way it foregrounds and uplifts music, movement, dance, and cultural practice in the long, complex, and astonishing story of struggle, resilience, imagination, survival, and innovation among African diasporic people. The movement detailed and the role of story, percussion, and sound offer histories/herstories of people continuously facing unspeakable brutalities and invasions of the body and soul, who will always continue to live their ancestries, their cultures, and the maps of their souls in folklore and in the physical world. This is rich, essential work.”—Kathy Engel, poet and associate arts professor, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University“It is not only the breadth and range of the scholars referenced in this book that has me awestruck but the amount of material covered that is impressive. It yields a fresh perspective on familiar material and a creative perspective in linking genres together in time periods and places never before charted. This is a brilliant and original work.”—Kariamu Welsh, director of the Institute for African Dance Research and PerformanceTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Past and Prologue as Prelude: Eurydice’s Black Flight 1. The Way We Do: An Introductory Mapping 2. Juba Danced: Following a Story in Motion 3. The Ancestors and the Lullaby: Passing It On 4. Put Your Hands on Your Hips: Rites of Passage in Performance 5. Rosy, Possum, Morning Star: Work Songs and the Blues Coda: Circling Back Around Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe civil rightsera story of young boys whose dreams of playing in the Little League World Series were dashed, not by a loss to a more formidable team, but because of the color of their skin.Trade Review"Lamb's engaging and thought-provoking book provides readers with a unique story about integration, segregation, and America's pastime and cannot be recommended highly enough."—Chad S. Wise, NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture"Stolen Dreams works as a history told at the intersection of sports, civil rights, and southern memory, reminding readers of how often those fields are closely woven together."—Robert Greene II, Journal of Southern History"Lamb includes grand context of what was happening in South Carolina, the South and American courts during the tumultuous early 1950s. That makes Stolen Dreams . . . a slick double-play: academically worthy of any Palmetto State history syllabus and perfect for a baseball fan's 2022 season reading list."—Gene Sapakoff, Post and Courier“[Stolen Dreams] meticulously documents an important moment, and team, that few people will know but should. It’s about the collision of racism and baseball, years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, and shows just how far Blacks had left to go to be accepted in America’s pastime. Lamb writes this story with affection, grace, and skill.”—Mike Freeman, editor of race and inequality at USA Today“Chris Lamb takes a forgotten baseball tournament and a forgotten moment in the civil rights struggle and spins them into an unforgettable story, proving, as Martin Luther King Jr. might have said, that the long arc of a batted ball bends toward justice. With impressive research and sharp insight, Lamb illustrates once again the important role baseball plays in understanding and shaping American culture.”—Jonathan Eig, best-selling author of Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season“Sports is a brilliant and bracing window for understanding Jim Crow segregation in the South. With this book, Chris Lamb uncovers a narrative in this history that few readers will know: a history of racism, injustice, baseball, and the kids crushed by the hatreds of adults. I can’t recommend this book enough. It speaks to the past brilliantly, but it also speaks to our troubled present. A necessary and important read.”—Dave Zirin, author of The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World“Lamb has presented Little League Baseball as a microcosm of Jim Crowism with so many history lessons of shame, sadness, and racial injustices propagated by the white majority. Lamb fires cannon shots with explosive narratives about Octavius Catto, Judge J. Waties Waring, Isaac Woodard, Robert Morrison, Robert Small, Frazier B. Baker, and others. This narrative is one of the most comprehensive examinations of the Lost Cause obsession for control in America.”—Larry Lester, Negro League Baseball historian and author“Chris Lamb’s thorough and eloquent account embodies the best tradition of civil rights scholarship, exposing America’s long history of racism, particularly in Charleston, a city built literally on the backs of enslaved people. Redemptive at its core, Stolen Dreams reminds us of all of the importance of telling the stories of African Americans that have so often been erased, forgotten, or neglected.”—Marjory Wentworth, South Carolina poet laureate, 2003–20Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. “The Team Nobody Would Play” 2. America’s Original Sin 3. The Charleston Baseball Riot 4. The Lost Cause 5. The Accommodationist 6. The Blinding of Isaac Woodard 7. “It’s Time for South Carolina to Rejoin the Union” 8. The Story of Little League Baseball 9. The YMCA 10. Even the Ocean Was Segregated 11. Brown v. Board of Education 12. “A Dastardly Act” 13. A Long Time Coming 14. The Trip to Williamsport 15. “Let Them Play!” 16. Emmett Till 17. “Paper Curtain” 18. The Civil Rights Movement in Charleston 19. Gus Holt’s Crusade 20. Return to Williamsport 21. No City Owes Its Success More to the Whipping of Slaves 22. The “Emanuel Nine” 23. John Rivers’s Dream Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAfter the Civil War, a handful of former Confederate leaders joined forces with the Mexican emperor Maximilian von Hapsburg to colonize Mexico with former American slaveholders. Their plan was to develop commercial agriculture in the Mexican state of Coahuila under the guidance of former slaveholders with former slaves providing the bulk of the labor force. By developing these new centers of agricultural production and commercial exchange, the Mexican government hoped to open up new markets and, by extending the few existing railroads in the region, also spur further development.The Southern Exodus to Mexico considers the experiences of both white southern elites and common white and black southern farmers and laborers who moved to Mexico during this period. Todd W. Wahlstrom examines in particular how the endemic warfare, raids, and violence along the borderlands of Texas and Coahuila affected the colonization effort. Ultimately, Native groups such as the ComanTrade Review"A welcome contribution to the lately growing scholarship on the Confederate-exile experience that is excellently grounded in historiography."—Robert May, American Historical Review“A well-researched study of the people, events, and ideas surrounding Confederate migration and colonization efforts in Mexico.”—C. L. Sinclair, Choice “Should be included in any conversation about the global dimensions of southern history.”—John Mckiernan-González, Journal of Southern History"This is an important book, and it deserves a place on reading lists for graduate seminars and Civil War enthusiasts alike. Indeed, not only does Wahlstrom add a great deal to the historiographical discussion in Civil War history, but his work also serves as a significant contribution to Southern, emancipation, and borderlands history."—Matthew M. Stith, Civil War Book Review“The Southern Exodus to Mexico is an intervention in borderlands history, in black-white-Indian history, in migration history, in economic history, and in the history of national, class, and racial identities. It is also that rare and wonderful kind of historical writing: a tale of roads not taken, of dreams not quite fulfilled. Even though most of the migrants did not achieve all that they had hoped, there is much for us to learn from their ventures. Wahlstrom shows us a dynamic borderland and the peoples who traversed it.”—Paul Spickard, author of Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and IdentityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War 2. White and Black Southerners Migrate to Mexico after the American Civil War 3. Southern Colonization and the Texas-Coahuila Borderlands 4. Southern Colonization and the Fall of the Mexican Empire, 1866–67 5. Southern Colonization, Railroads, and U.S. and Mexican Modernization Conclusion: Regions and Nations Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines New Orleans's complicated relationship with the history of the Confederacy pre- and post-Civil War. The book opens and closes with the dramatic removal of the city's Confederate statues. While the book is a narrative of the rise and fall of the four monuments, it is also about a city engaging history.Trade ReviewThis well-researched book puts into historical context the useful discussion we had in New Orleans about removing Confederate monuments. It is important for us to understand history, to memorialize it, and to continually reassess it. This can be a difficult balance. James Gill and Howard Hunter do a judicious job of listening to all perspectives. Tearing Down the Lost Cause is a highly readable match of narrative history and journalism at its best—probing, dispassionate, with a seasoned take on historical memory warped by myth. Beyond its appeal to general readers, James Gill and Howard Hunter have delivered a gift to college professors and high school teachers tasked with giving young people a fair-minded viewfinder on raging issues of our day and the long arc of justice. Fraught with hard feeling, the subject of the Lost Cause and fallen monuments nowadays is almost guaranteed to end in daggers drawn. So, it’s refreshing to discover a narrative that manages to stay evenhanded without pulling punches. Tearing Down the Lost Cause is how history is supposed to be written. James Gill and Howard Hunter revisit the bygone days surrounding New Orleans’s Civil War statuary. In so doing, expertly and without fanfare, they nudge us closer to common ground. The fact that it looks increasingly unattainable is all the more reason for making the effort. A must read. As if untangling Mardi Gras beads, Gill and Hunter deftly deconstruct the bruising history behind the removal of the New Orleans Confederate monuments: a satisfying read.

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Book SynopsisAs snippets of lived experience, eye-catching visual images, and reflections of historical moments, the cards in the collection become sources for understanding not only African American life, but also broader American history and culture.

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Book SynopsisIn the summers of the early 1970s, Morris Ardoin and his siblings helped run their family's roadside motel in a hot, buggy, bayou town in Cajun Louisiana. Theirs is a tale of suspense, awkward romance, naughty French lessons, and an insider's take on a truly remarkable, not-yet-homogenized pocket of American culture.Trade ReviewIts details impressive, Stone Motel is a layered memoir, both nostalgic and forthright in recalling family struggles." - Laura Leavitt, Foreword Reviews"One of the three best gay biography books of all time." - bookauthority.org"Morris Ardoin knew he had to escape the hostile world into which he was born before he could find himself as a gay man. He succeeded in this quest, only to discover, as this brave, complex memoir makes clear, that his past remains an inextricable part of the person he has become." - Daniel Burr, The Gay & Lesbian Review"Focusing on tradition, family, and food, Morris Ardoin’s Stone Motel will resonate with those searching for personal identity in an unaccepting time or place. Intensely personal and incredibly emotional, there is a sense of victory in his survival." - Valerie J. Andrews, School of Communication and Design, Loyola University New Orleans"Stone Motel is much more than a memoir; it is a meditation on the intersection of place and identity. Ardoin elevates the classic coming-of-age story to an art form with authenticity and wisdom, all the while never wandering too far from his Cajun roots." - Frank Perez, author of Treasures of the Vieux Carré and other books about New Orleans

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Book SynopsisThe Racial Politics of Division deconstructs antagonistic discourses that circulated in local Miami media between African Americans, white Cubans, and black Cubans during the 1980 Mariel Boatlift and the 1994 Balsero Crisis. Monika Gosin challenges exclusionary arguments pitting these groups against one another and depicts instead the nuanced ways in which identities have been constructed, negotiated, rejected, and reclaimed in the context of Miami''s historical multiethnic tensions. Focusing on ideas of legitimacy, Gosin argues that dominant race-making ideologies of the white establishment regarding worthy citizenship and national belonging shape inter-minority conflict as groups negotiate their precarious positioning within the nation. Rejecting oversimplified and divisive racial politics, The Racial Politics of Division portrays the lived experiences of African Americans, white Cubans, and Afro-Cubans as disrupters in the binary frames of worth-citizenship nTrade ReviewThe Racial Politics of Division makes an important contribution to social identity research related to race, ethnicity, and immigration. * Choice *The Racial Politics of Division is a strong new addition to the field of race, ethnicity, and immigration; U.S. Latin(x) population studies; and Black studies. Race scholars will benefit from considering how Afro-Cuban racialization experiences challenge cultural ideals about the meaning and function of race. A broad audience will also find the author's use of news artifacts and interviews engaging and authoritative, making this ideal for classroom use. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Race Making: Miami and the Nation 2. Marielitos, the Criminalization of Blackness, and Constructions of Worthy Citizenship 3. And Justice for All? Immigration and African American Solidarity 4. Framing the Balsero Crisis: The Racial and Moral Politics of Suffering 5. Afro-Cuban Encounters at the Intersections of Blackness and Latinidad Conclusion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Under the Strain of Color, Gabriel N. Mendes recaptures the history of Harlem''s Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic, a New York City institution that embodied new ways of thinking about mental health, race, and the substance of citizenship. The result of a collaboration among the psychiatrist and social critic Dr. Fredric Wertham, the writer Richard Wright, and the clergyman Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop, the clinic emerged in the context of a widespread American concern with the mental health of its citizens. Mendes shows the clinic to have been simultaneously a scientific and political gambit, challenging both a racist mental health care system and supposedly color-blind psychiatrists who failed to consider the consequences of oppression in their assessment and treatment of African American patients. Employing the methods of oral history, archival research, textual analysis, and critical race philosophy, Under the Strain of Color contributes toTrade ReviewUnder the Strain of Color is a much-needed addition to the historiography of race and psychiatry in the USA. This is the only book-length treatment of the history of the Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic, the first outpatient psychiatric clinic to serve the most iconic of African American communities: New York's Harlem. Under the Strain of Color comprehensively addresses two of the less-well understood aspects of the fascinating Lafargue Clinic story: its origin and its contribution to the civil rights movement. In doing so, Mendes has artfully crafted what should become the standard account of this remarkable, short-lived, Cold War–era medical institution. A slim volume that is jargon-free and as entertaining as a novel, I can see it wideningthe audience for both medical humanities and the history of psychiatry. * History of Psychiatry *Professor Mendes' narrative has serious contemporary analogues. It is a cautonary tale about how and why minority communities fail to gain assistance for their needs asthey define them... One comes away from this book feeling admiration for the efforts of all those who both brought the Lafargue Clinic into being and sustained it through its 12 years of active service. If we are wise, we will learn from their example. * J Relig Health *Wertham's work at Lafargue led to his pronouncement that 'racism was not exclusively a social and political problem but represented a community health problem.' This well-researched, easy to read text is compelling, providing a comprehensible overview of the relationship between racism and the psychiatric profession in the midcentury US. * Choice *[An] admirable contribution to the history of American health, revealing how the intersecting efforts of activists, practitioners, and cultural figures helped make New York City's health institutions more responsive to diverse patient groups in the face of political inertia and social resistance. * American Historical Review *Under the Strain of Color is a significant contribution to the study of antiracism in the human sciences and a compelling counterpoint to the historiography of the "psy" disciplines after WWII... Mendes' illuminating study of the neglected Lafargue clinic effectively points to more radical alternatives from this period... Mendes' book offers a convincing case for the rewards of studying the history of human science from the margins. * Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences *Table of ContentsIntroduction: "Under the Strain of Color"1. "This Burden of Consciousness": Richard Wright and the Psychology of Race Relations, 1927–19472. "Intangible Difficulties": Dr. Fredric Wertham and the Politics of Psychiatry in the Interwar Years3. "Between the Sewer and the Church": The Emergence of the Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic4. Children and the Violence of Racism: The Lafargue Clinic, Comic Books, and the Case against School SegregationEpilogue: "An Experiment in the Social Basis of Psychotherapy"Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn Singing Like Germans, Kira Thurman tells the sweeping story of Black musicians in German-speaking Europe over more than a century. Thurman brings to life the incredible musical interactions and transnational collaborations among people of African descent and white Germans and Austrians. Through this compelling history, she explores how people reinforced or challenged racial identities in the concert hall. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, audiences assumed the categories of Blackness and Germanness were mutually exclusive. Yet on attending a performance of German music by a Black musician, many listeners were surprised to discover that German identity is not a biological marker but something that could be learned, performed, and mastered. While Germans and Austrians located their national identity in music, championing composers such as Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms as national heroes, the performance of their works by Black musicTrade ReviewSinging Like Germans is a superb piece of historical research enlivened by its author's deep fascination with her subject matter. This book will be fascinating to a wide body of readers who are interested in classical music, German history, and African American history. * New York Journal of Books *Thurman's exacting research, synthesizing a kaleidoscope of source material, paints a rich portrait of Black classical music-making in Europe spanning well over a century. Filled with compelling accounts of the contradictions inherent in classical music's universalist claims, Singing Like Germans demonstrates that the lives of Black classical musicians cannot be reduced to a narrative of struggle. * Boston Review *Sometimes, a book comes along that completely breaks new ground—a total eye-opener. And that's the book called Singing Like Germans. It's meticulously researched, but the writing style goes down like water. Most importantly, it uncovers a story of people and a performance practice and rebuilds an unknown period in music history. * NPR *In Singing Like Germans, the historian Kira Thurman adds a new dimension to the story by focusing on African American classical musicians who studied, performed, or settled in German-speaking Europe, offering valuable insights into how Germans viewed these Black artists. * New York Review of Books *We love history like this that explores how people reinforced or challenged racial identities in specific circumstances. * East Bay Booksellers, Oakland, CA *Thurman's study of Black musicians is an indispensable and foundational achievment. Thurman's work represents a monumental and necessary step towards rewritng the history of German music. * Monatshefte *With Singing Like Germans, Thurman joins Naomi Adele André, author of Black Opera, at the vanguard of cultural histories reexamining musical production and consumption through the lens of critical race theory. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: 1870–1914 1. How Beethoven Came to Black America: German Musical Universalism and Black Education after the Civil War 2. African American Intellectual and Musical Migration to the Kaiserreich 3. The Sonic Color Line Belts the World: Constructing Race and Music in Central Europe Part II: 1918–1945 4. Blackness and Classical Musicin the Age of the Black Horror on the Rhine Campaign 5. Singing Lieder, Hearing Race: Debating Blackness, Whiteness, and German Music in Interwar Central Europe 6. "A Negro Who Sings German Music Jeopardizes German Culture": Black Musicians under the Shadow of Nazism Part III: 1945–1961 7. "And I thought they were a decadent race": Denazification, the Cold War, and (African) American Involvement in Postwar West German Musical Life 8. Breaking with the Past: Race, Gender, and Opera after 1945 9. Singing in the Promised Land: Black Musicians in the German Democratic Republic Conclusion

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMany researchers and urban policy professionals will find something of interest here.[T]his collection contains multiple insights that professionals will find useful and interesting. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Learning to Save the World 1. Saving Medication vs. Saving Children 2. How to Do Things to Children with Words 3. The Metalanguage of HIV Intervention 4. The Global Health Frontier 5. Experiencing AIDS in Africa: The Anxious Fantasies of American Medicine 6. "We Are All Just Specimens": Pedagogy as Dispossession Conclusion: Undoing Global Health

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Book SynopsisEcological States examines ecological policies in the People''s Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environmental protection transform nature and society. While many point to China''s ecological civilization programs as a new paradigm for global environmental governance, Jesse Rodenbiker argues that ecological redlining extends the reach of the authoritarian state.Although Chinese urban sustainability initiatives have driven millions of citizens from their land and housing, Rodenbiker shows that these migrants are not passive subjects of state policy. Instead, they creatively navigate resettlement processes in pursuit of their own benefit. However, their resistance is limited by varied forms of state-backed infrastructural violence. Through extensive fieldwork with scientists, urban planners, and everyday citizens in southwestern China, Ecological States exposes the ways in which the scientific logics and practiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Ecological States Part I: Ecology and State Power 1. Making Ecology Developmental 2. Botany, Beauty, Purification 3. Ecological Territorialization Part II : Ecology and Social Trajectories 4. Ecological Migrations, Volumetric Aspirations 5. Rural Redux 6. Infrastructural Diffusion Epilogue: Global Ecological Futures

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Book SynopsisThe Drama of Dictatorship uncovers the role played by rival Communist parties in the conflict that culminated in Ferdinand Marcos''s declaration of martial law in 1972. Using the voluminous radical literature of the period, Joseph Scalice reveals how two parties, the PKP and the CPP, torn apart by the Sino-Soviet dispute, subordinated the explosive mass struggles of the time behind rival elite conspirators. The PKP backed Marcos and the CPP, his bourgeois opponents. The absence of an independent mass movement in defense of democracy made dictatorship possible.The Drama of Dictatorship argues that the martial law regime was not fundamentally the outcome of Marcos''s personal quest to remain in power but rather a consensus of the country''s ruling elite, confronted with mounting social unrest, that authoritarian forms of rule were necessary to preserve their property and privileges. The bourgeois opponents of Marcos did not defend democracy but, likeTrade ReviewThe Drama of Dictatorship is a decisive and timely exemplar of a nuanced and meticulous approach to the history of the Marcos era, which is a rarity in the scholarship on this period. This book forces proponents of both the Golden and the Dark Age narratives to reconsider their beliefs. They will find it challenging to uphold the simplistic, highly selective, and moralistic character of such narratives. * Philippine Journal of Public Policy *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. A Storm on the Horizon 2. The First Quarter Storm 3. Barricades 4. The Writ Suspended 5. Martial Law Epilogue

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Book SynopsisIn Between War and the State, Van Nguyen-Marshall examines an array of voluntary activities, including mutual-help, professional, charitable, community development, student, women''s, and rights organizations active in South Vietnam from 1954 to 1975. By bringing focus to the public lives of South Vietnamese people, Between War and the State challenges persistent stereotypes of South Vietnam as a place without society or agency. Such robust associational life underscores how an active civil society survived despite difficulties imposed by the war, government restrictions, economic hardship, and external political forces. These competing political forces, which included the United States, Western aid agencies, and Vietnamese communist agents, created a highly competitive arena wherein the South Vietnamese state did not have a monopoly on persuasive or coercive power. To maintain its influence, the state sometimes needed to accommodate groups and limTable of ContentsIntroduction: Theory and Scope 1. The Historical and Political Landscape 2. Sociability and Associational Life in South Vietnam 3. Performing Social Service in South Vietnam 4. Voluntary Efforts in Social and Community Development 5. Social and Political Activism of Students in South Vietnam 6. S.ng Thn Newspaper and the "Highway of Horror" Project 7. The Fight for Rights and Freedoms in the 1970s Conclusion: Challenges and Possibilities in Comparative Context

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Book SynopsisUntamed Shrews traces the evolution of unruly women in Chinese literature, from the reviled shrew to the celebrated new woman. Notorious for her violence, jealousy, and promiscuity, the character of the shrew personified the threat of unruly femininity to the Confucian social order and served as a justification for punishing any woman exhibiting these qualities. In this book, Shu Yang connects these shrewish qualities to symbols of female empowerment in modern China. Rather than meeting her demise, the shrew persisted, and her negative qualities became the basis for many forms of the new woman, ranging from the early Republican suffragettes and Chinese Noras, to the Communist and socialist radicals. Criticism of the shrew endured, but her vicious, sexualized, and transgressive nature became a source of pride, placing her among the ranks of liberated female models.Untamed Shrews shows that whether male writers and the state hate, fear, or lov

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Book SynopsisIn Between War and the State, Van Nguyen-Marshall examines an array of voluntary activities, including mutual-help, professional, charitable, community development, student, women's, and rights organizations active in South Vietnam from 1954 to 1975. By bringing focus to the public lives of South Vietnamese people, Between War and the State challenges persistent stereotypes of South Vietnam as a place without society or agency. Such robust associational life underscores how an active civil society survived despite difficulties imposed by the war, government restrictions, economic hardship, and external political forces. These competing political forces, which included the United States, Western aid agencies, and Vietnamese communist agents, created a highly competitive arena wherein the South Vietnamese state did not have a monopoly on persuasive or coercive power. To maintain its influence, the state sometimes needed to accommodate groups and limit its use of violence. Civil society participants in South Vietnam leveraged their social connections, made alliances, appealed to the domestic and international public, and used street protests to voice their concerns, secure their interests, and carry out their activities.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Theory and Scope 1. The Historical and Political Landscape 2. Sociability and Associational Life in South Vietnam 3. Performing Social Service in South Vietnam 4. Voluntary Efforts in Social and Community Development 5. Social and Political Activism of Students in South Vietnam 6. S.ng Thn Newspaper and the "Highway of Horror" Project 7. The Fight for Rights and Freedoms in the 1970s Conclusion: Challenges and Possibilities in Comparative Context

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